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...family's story is handsomely told in The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 (Viking; 648 pages; $34.95), the first volume of a chronicle by Oxford historian Niall Ferguson. The second volume is scheduled for next year...
...Mary Robinson became the embodiment of what Ireland represented for millions of them, as against green beer, leprechauns, or armed conflict," says Niall O'Dowd of Irish Voice, a newspaper in New York...
...support of successful Irish groups, directly and indirectly, that helped the new trend develop. Several of the groups on Straight Outta Ireland got career boosts by having singles released on labels sponsored by U2. "Bands like U2 and Sinead helped give people a sense of pride and potential," says Niall Stokes, editor of Hot Press, a Dublin music magazine. "U2 is revered, but the Irish are cynical by nature. They see ((U2 lead singer)) Bono and think, If that ridiculous idiot can do it, then...
Against these plangent strings of personality is the oboe howl and twitter of Niall Buggy as the only son, a pixilated and desperate man steeped in family lore who nonetheless bolted half a continent away. For him and his kin, heritage is a cruel joke masquerading as an oracle...
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...