Word: irishness
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...Lake View Hills Estates, 25 miles to the south, a couple and their grown son perished as they raced in their car for the safety of a nearby reservoir. The body of one of their neighbors was found inside his charred RV, along with the remains of his four Irish wolfhounds. In Wynola, 40 miles northeast of San Diego, a fire fighter trying to save a house died when a freak turn of wind blew the fire in his direction; the colleague who tried to save him sustained burns over 20% of his body. Some people were luckier. A couple...
...Brian was fascinated with feints and deceptions, with warships that disguise themselves or fly false colors. Was that because he flew false colors himself? He wasn't Irish; his name wasn't even O'Brian. He was born Richard Russ, the last of nine children of a bankrupt English physician who dispersed the family after his wife died. As a young man, Russ/O'Brian abandoned a wife, son and dying infant daughter to pursue a writer's life. When fame arrived and the world tracked him to the south of France, where he had lived since 1950 with his second...
...want to do Dublin by night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick, new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn...
...want to do Dublin by night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn...
...nine children in his Irish-Catholic family, Tom Cavanagh seemed destined to play hockey given his roots...