Word: leprechauns
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...offering the colorful assortment of cereals that most brain breaks offer, Quincy’s only had two cereals in large bowls: Marshmallow Mateys and Hemp Plus Granola. Granted, there was plenty of both to go around, but for those who want cereal but weren’t into leprechaun-cauldron-shaped marshmallows, there was no recourse...
...lure of actual bullion is just one of the tactics the $6.8 million museum, which opened Wednesday, is using to try to change the way people view the leprechaun. A character in Irish folklore dating back to the 8th century - a wily shoemaking sprite who enticed people with untold riches and then cunningly snatched them away at the last moment -the leprechaun was transformed by advertisers and Hollywood producers in the 1950s and '60s into something altogether different: a gaudy, top-hat-wearing, pipe-smoking creature with a trademark piercing cry of "Top o' the morning!" The leprechaun made popular...
...Rahilly, a well-known Irish furniture designer, says he didn't set out with the goal of rehabilitating the image of the leprechaun. The idea for the museum simply came to him in a muggy, hungover moment of inspiration one morning in 2003. "I can't say it was a fairy visitation," he says with a chortle. "I was just drawn to them, or maybe they were drawn to me." With the Celtic Tiger economy booming at the time, he didn't have much difficulty finding investors to pony up the money to fund the venture. "Every pitch meeting would...
...year. (The twins became more famous for their garishly colored matching attire and bouncy dance moves than for their singing talent.) Analysts also feel the timing of the museum opening is unfortunate. "This would have been envisaged right at the nexus of our self-belief," says Tony Tracy, a leprechaun expert and a film lecturer at the University of Galway. "But it's now arriving just as the country has hit rock bottom, and the Irish are concerned that we're once again living up to the stereotype of the leprechaun." (See pictures of Susan Boyle's road to fame...
...Rahilly hopes the museum will stir up pride in Irish folklore rather than provoke anger at the price tag. What he's created, after all, is not a conventional museum but an evocative sculptural installation based on themes from leprechaun mythology. In addition to the Fort Knox crock, the museum has a rain room, where sound effects and lighting make it feel as if Ireland's most abundant natural resource is splattering down around visitors, and a leprechaun well that appears to be infinitely deep, thanks to the help of multimedia screens and video cameras. The poetry and lyricism...