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Kennedy's sense of discipline springs largely from his background as the son of two Irish-Catholic immigrant families. Then Anne Hearne, Mrs. Kennedy left County Wexford in Ireland 30 years ago. She married James Kennedy, the son of an Irish Republican Army member from Donegal who immigrated around...
David is acutely aware of his capacity for accomplishment, and of how far he has come from Donegal and County Wexford. In the course of a two-hour conversation, David mentioned three times that he had won the Nationals and World Championship...
Band leader Kirwan was born in Wexford, Ireland, and immigrated to the States in the '70s; he began to form Black 47 in 1989. He writes all the group's songs, mixing in events from his life, including those early rejections from New York clubs. Says Kirwan: "By playing in those Irish places where we had to play for people who didn't care about us one way or another, or hated us, we couldn't help but get better...
...sister and I marched with County Wexford; Liz McColgan marched with County Cork; Kerry McBride, of course, marched with Country Kerry. Those parades are one of my favorite memories of high school. I wouldn't want to deny anyone the experience of marching with their ancestral country in a display of ethnic pride...
...rumored to be dead and a daring literary forgery -- this time a "lost" Conan Doyle manuscript. Rendell has often said that she would prefer to concentrate on individual stories of twisted minds, but feels compelled by her fans to revive the suburban detective team of rumpled Reg Wexford and prissy Mike Burden. Having indulged her own preference to dazzling effect in her past seven volumes -- two published under her alternate byline, Barbara Vine -- Rendell now indulges readers in The Veiled One (Pantheon; 278 pages; $17.95). If the underlying appeal of most mysteries is the promise of moral order, that...