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...country once solely occupied by Aborigines. "I think our ancestors were convicts," her father, Thorvald, told her. "Let's find out." So began an investigation that led Upfold first to some basic Australian history and then to the story of her great-great grandmother, Anne Dunne, an Irishwoman convicted of stealing linen and sentenced to seven years in the penal colony of New South Wales...
...News from Paraguay is the story of Ella Lynch, a lovely, lusty young Irishwoman who in 1854 meets and arouses the ardor of Francisco Solano Lopez, the cruel and debauched son of the dictator of Paraguay. Francisco--"Franco" to his friends and numerous enemies--spirits Ella off to his homeland, a half-savage tropical Eden complete with snakes and crocodiles and cannibals, oh my, where they live in conspicuous luxury until Franco (who is, like Ella, an actual historical figure) leads the country into a disastrous war with Brazil...
...first time I met MARGARET HASSAN, CARE International's Iraq director?who was murdered by insurgents last week?I was puzzled. It was in an Iraqi government office in 1998. Here was a petite Irishwoman in her 50s with an English accent speaking fluent Arabic in one of the world's most dangerous pariah states. The U.N. sanctions that had wedged the Iraqis between an evil regime and an uncaring world had been in place for eight years. She fixed her strong, brown eyes on me and gave me the facts: Iraqi children were dying by the thousands; Iraq...
...hadn’t seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded...
...most fun part of the night was watching heroes meet heroes. Irish antiwar activist Caoimhe Butterly didn't spend much time with British war hero Captain James Moulton, but everyone else mixed it up nicely. Nebahat Akkoc, a Kurdish women's-rights advocate in Turkey, was eager to meet Irishwoman Christina Noble, who works with children in Vietnam and Mongolia. It turns out Noble is expanding her work into Akkoc's region, and will be bunking with her when she visits. Noble is also a big fan of Bono, and she beamed at having her picture taken with him. "Thanks...