Word: irishness
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...guilt of Irish laughter resounds through much of I'll Go On, McGovern's and Gerry Dukes' selection of passages from the three novels. McGovern, one of the foremost players of Beckett, mines every vein of showmanship in the works. Riding a bicycle while holding crutches, or squatting nearly naked and spitting out whole paragraphs in a long breath, he's a veritable Cirque de Solo. Even on his deathbed (in the Malone Dies section), the McGovern-Beckett character finds much to laugh about, though his smile is a rictus...
...followed, Brussels wore the dejected and incredulous air of the billionaire rejected by the chorus girl. In public, there was hurt talk of "respect" for the vote. In private, there were twinges of panic. At a summit in Brussels the following week, Europe's leaders agreed to give the Irish four months to find a way forward; the Union will return to the Lisbon treaty in October. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has set a deadline of the end of the year for Europe to overcome the Irish problem. He has traveled to Dublin...
...didn't work. All the cheery T shirts in the world and the backing of Ireland's major political parties couldn't win the day. Irish voters were told that Lisbon would mean their sons would be conscripted into a European army, that abortion would be legalized and that there were plans to implant microchips in Irish children. Connellan met voters convinced that Brussels would impose a one-child policy. And more potent even than the scare stories, says Connellan, was the confusion. Irish voters - many of whom cheerfully professed to being staunchly pro-European - simply didn't know what...
...magnetic tapes. Foreign concerns are becoming more aggressive in seeking clients for their sophisticated wares. In Ireland, the government's development agency has targeted international services as a high-priority area for attracting foreign firms to the country. Compucorp, a California-based information-services company, is able to hire Irish programmers and computer engineers for about one-third the $50,000 annual salary that they would command in the U.S. The company now employs 66 people in Ireland. Irwin Cohen, president of Virginia- based ILM Corp., a data-processing firm, points out that ILM's Jamaican subsidiary was founded...
...please. Because he is not British, he'll just be Mr. Geldof, Boomtown Rat, K.B.E.) But at almost every concert the fans belonged to U2, as Bono and The Edge ripped out New Year's Day and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. The girls threw lingerie, the guys waved Irish flags, and everybody screamed wildly when Bono lifted girls onstage, hugged them and left them in puddles of tears. The politics took a quieter tack. A slick ten-minute film delivered Amnesty's message, and the musicians talked about their involvement to the press. A.I. believes in the simple--as Gabriel calls...