Word: liffeying
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...Irish capital with the rich smell of roasted barley, as it has for generations. The complex's old stone buildings are arranged to let beer flow downhill, so grain is stored at higher elevations while kegs are filled in low-lying areas next to Dublin's River Liffey. And the world-renowned stout is still as dark and creamy as ever. But little else about Guinness has stayed the same. The company has undergone a radical overhaul of its core brewing operations in recent years. Guinness decided in April to close its northwest London Park Royal brewery, which has been...
...other hand, the concerto by Takemitsu, 54, is a delicate, elusive short piece in one movement that is more obviously Joycean in its free-flowing play of ideas. Hardly a bravura technical display, it is instead restrained; if Albert's River Liffey is sometimes a raging torrent, Takemitsu's is a gentle stream...
...Motherwell's color is never descriptive. Even the more recent arrivals on his palette, like the soft greens and grayed browns of "Irish" paintings like Riverrun, 1972, an homage to Joyce's meditations on Dublin's river, the Liffey, soon acquire this fixed quality. Color in Motherwell is not an adjective, but a noun...
...conspiracies and controversy involving high-ranking public figures. And then there is dogged investigative reporting and at least one "Deep Throat." Sound familiar? Well, yes, but this is Dublin 1983, not Washington 1973. The central character is former Prime Minister Charles Haughey; the scandal is Liffeygate, after the River Liffey that bisects Ireland's capital city...
Indeed, they might be. Joyce liked praise, and it is now coming to him and his work from some unexpected quarters. Red-bearded Patrick O'Rourke stands by the Liffey, leaning on his bicycle. "I left school at twelve," he says. "Now I'm trying to read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. From my point of view, it's a case of trying to educate myself. Just reading Joyce has helped me to appreciate the simple things of life. He changed my life long before the centenary...