Word: niall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRITICS LIKE BENSTOCK, Cockburn and even Niall Sheridan, mutual friend of O'Brien and Joyce, seem to regret O'Nolan's other identities: as Myles na Gopaleen, columnist for the Irish Times, and as Brian O'Nolan, civil servant (until he was fired for his opinions in the Times). Sheridan wrote of O'Nolan that perhaps "the demands of journalism syphoned off piecemeal his enormous creative vitality...
...commission's report were soon felt in Kampala. There was little that Amin could do about the Geneva-based jurists, but he was not at a loss for convenient targets. Accusing the British of instigating the report (the commission's secretary-general is London Barrister Niall MacDermot), Amin first threatened to expel Uganda's 1,500 Britons on 48 hours notice, then backed down from the deadline at the behest of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta. But he warned that "drastic action" would still be taken if Britain's "vicious anti-Uganda campaign does...
...scope and genius of Joyce's book, this is Behan's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. With a loving fidelity, Playwright Frank McMahon has pasted together a play that is more of a stage scrapbook, an episodic family album in which the elder Behan (Niall Toibin) sits at the edge of the stage and acts as a kind of chorus commentator on his earlier self (Frank Grimes...
...slums, yet their individual characters and common humanity are finely delineated by the superb Dublin Abbey Theater players. As the young Behan, Frank Grimes is one of those actors who make reviewers long for new adjectives of praise. He is evocative, ardent and totally winning. As the older Behan, Niall Toibin looks uncannily like the man he is playing, and his Gaelic way with a bawdy tune could set a barroom on the roar...