Word: irishness
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...comedy is McDonagh's signature. He can shock an audience into laughing at just about anything (suicide, patricide, terrorism, famine), and his expletive-ridden dialogue - its cadence and Celtic slang borrowed from his Irish background - can make even the most banal comment sound like a punch line. Audiences first fell for McDonagh's gritty, witty brand of theater in 1996, when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane - about the love-hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then...
...these initial gains. As a result, Japanese Americans today earn higher annual incomes than whites, though they hold only several hundred political offices nationwide. Their economic success doesn’t rely on political power. Political success doesn’t always translate into economic success either. The Irish, for example, controlled the police forces and fire departments of most major American cities by the late nineteenth century. For years, they governed capitals like Boston and New York, and blackballed Jews and Italians from their political machines. Still, Sowell notes, “…[in America,] the Irish...
While some students spent their spring breaks reeling from midterms, Aaron C. Fallon ’11 and Alana C.M. O’Brien ’11 were performing Reels in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the World Championships of Irish Dance. The competition, which took place from March 23 to 30, was a high point for the freshmen, who spent three months training for it. Fallon and O’Brien qualified for the championships after placing first and third, respectively, at the New England Regional Championships, and after placing at the North American National Championships...
...pints; others were primarily for tourists coming to taste. And just as American wineries now grow grapes from nearly every European region, I was able to sample all the world's beer styles, from the weird red Lambics of Belgium, which taste like Sour Patch Kids candy, to chocolaty Irish porters...
...divisions. Each division is overseen by two committee persons whose job it is to get their neighbors to vote for the endorsed candidate for every office. My grandfather Charles Patrick Shields was a Democratic committeeman in the 43rd Ward. As you might figure by his name, he was an Irish-American classic. He lived with Grandmom in a row house in Nicetown, on 15th Street, a short walk from the busy corner of Broad Street and Hunting Park. Every night when he was working the night shift, he'd head off to the plant wearing a peacoat...