Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...follows her sister's path she finds herself intertwined not only with Aisling's exotic, erotic lifestyle but with her other family members in strange ways. Each attempting to carve out their own path, none of them can free themselves of the others, so the story also moves through Patrick's haunted wanderings and the life of their uncle Oscar whose cardboard clerical collar and designer suits speak of a long history. More Bread or I'll Appear becomes a traditional generational declension that spans the globe and some very untraditional characters...
...manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex glove-wearing paranoid trapped in his own neurosis. Like Keelin, the fourth sister Orla seems to have escaped OCD, though she does pass...
They all agree that weekend-long festivities are a thing of the past. "Years ago, pubs would be busy from the time they opened up, that's the was the way St. Patrick's day went. But the way it's going now, I think it's changed over the years. Because it's on a Wednesday it's kind of hard to predict how crowded it's gonna be. I'm sure when people get off work it's gonna pick up," explains Paul Byrne, owner of James's Gate in Jamaica Plain...
...Byrne implies, Americans have co-opted the stereotypes of the reveling Irish for their own purposes. In Boston, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated mainly in pseudo-Irish bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux...
Brogued James's Gate and The Druid report no problems with drunken patrons. "St. Patrick's Day is fun because a good crowd comes in here. People know how to behave themselves and stuff, so we never have any bother or anything. Everybody's just out for a good time," says Patrick Delaney, bartender at The Druid...