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Mountain goat crowned king of Ireland| Oddly Enough| Reuters: Aug 14, 10:59am 6 reviews ireland
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKLA69122420080810

RTÉ.ie Radio 1: Hags Queens and Wise Women: Jul 12, 5:47am 0 review mythology, ireland, women
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/hagsqueensandwisewomen/

TheDead - eSnips, share anything: Jul 7, 4:57pm 0 review movies, ireland, joyce, the-dead, huston
http://www.esnips.com/doc/f35e76cb-bf5a-4eca-be46-1f8dfb681156/TheDead

Bloomsday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Jul 7, 12:49pm 1 review ireland, irish-literature, joyce, bloomsday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday; Putting a Bloom on the cheeks of The Dead On my absent wanderings, I was invited to a few nice cultural events. June is the month of Bloomsday in Ireland, celebrating the day in 1904 in which the hero of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, wanders Dublin city. It was also the day James Joyce first walked out with his future wife, Nora Barnacle. The merriment, drinking and literary-pretentiousness-for-a-day has by now spread across the globe, like the Irish themselves. In some centers, organizers have used the day to celebrate other aspects of Joyce's literary legacy. At the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, the Irish Ambassador hosted us to a screening of "The Dead" - John Huston's last film of Joyce's famous short story, and Huston's tribute to his adopted country. The story is a simple one (although revealed like an unraveling ball of wool) about love lost at an early age by some, and never found at all by others. The lost lover is really dead, the one who never found love is dead inside. It is wonderfully cast with quite a few Abbey Theatre faces, the wonderful tenor voice of the late Frank Patterson, and Huston's daughter Angelica in the lead role. (It also stars Peter O'Toole's daughter Kate). Anjelica's scene walking down the stairs as she hears Patterson's haunting song "The Lass of Aughrim." is one of the most moving performances you'll see in a film as she makes the implications of it all too clear. A sad and evocative film indeed - and just as well the Irish embassy had laid on a goodly supply of Guinness and Jameson whiskey to lift our spirits as we trooped out of the theatre. [PICTURE: Angelica Huston as Gretta Conroy pauses to hear the parting song while her uncomprehending husband waits at the bottom of the stairs. Click to hear the song she is listening to, "The Lass of Aughrim" (flash-video clip).]

Tipperary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 2, 9:55am 1 review ireland, travel, lemurs, thanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipperary; Where sheep may safely grave My travels take me back to the low-rolling hills of Thomond - or, more accurately South Tipperary. Irish exiles never die - they simply go home and fade away into the Celtic mist. Not that I have any intention of dying or fading, but it's worth doing a preliminary inspection of the lie of the land when you've lived away so long. The picture is a corner of the Tipperary graveyard where my maternal grandmother has lain for most of the time I have been going through my own brief span of wandering the earth. This little corner already looks Victorian, perhaps medieval, or even archaeological, compared to the shiny faux-marble, gold-engraved and spotlessly regimented graves of the newly dead in the "modern" churchyards nearby. It is a startling reminder that not only are our lives brief, but our deaths may be too. These tombstones have grown from new to old and falling, in the same time that I too have moved from new to failing. Not only is grandma gone, but her 11 children are also gone, and even their children are now old fools such as I, wondering how our lives have been slipping past unnoticed. But enough of morbid philosophy. This is Ireland after all, and while we have a relaxed relationship with death (listen to the Dubliners singing Finnegan's Wake), we have an even better one with life. There are pubs not far from this rural graveyard (one of them a regular haunt of Martin Sheen, the faux US president). There is the distant sound of music, and old codgers wait with tall tales about the living and the dead. As the winds whisper through the darkening woods, who knows what sly and evil lemurs lurk in the land, waiting to be lambasted (e.g., viz. EMMUTTMAX, op. cit., ibid.). In their dark castles warrior thanes may sleep still, waiting to be woken by the call to battle. If all that fails, there's still the siren call of the Jameson and the Bushmills... Yes, time to leave the sheep to safely grave. [FOOTNOTE: A stumbler asked me the origin of the title quote here. It refers to a very lovely section from the secular Hunting Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria 5, "Schafe können sicher weiden" - "Sheep may safely graze." For the reference to lemurs, thanes and Thomond, see Chronicles of the Celtic-Lemur Galactic War]

Robert Fisk: How Ireland exorcised the ghost of empire - Robert Fisk, News - Ind…: Mar 23, 5:15am 0 review ireland, israel, international, war
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-how-ireland-exorcised-the-...

http://bp1.blogger.com/_jKDuEG1KcRM/R9Boa_GEhqI/AAAAAAAACjE/Mdah51JS8CA/s1600-h/…: Mar 8, 10:59am 0 review ireland, blogs, books
http://bp1.blogger.com/_jKDuEG1KcRM/R9Boa_GEhqI/AAAAAAAACjE/Mdah51JS8CA/s1600...

Welcome to The Curragh of Kildare History and Information Website.: Mar 6, 10:54am 1 review geography, history, ireland, europe
http://www.curragh.info/

In Search of Ancient Ireland | PBS: Aug 29, 2007 10:16am 32 reviews ireland
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ancientireland/

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n07/toib01_.html: Mar 30, 2007 5:22am 2 reviews literature, ireland, theatre, dublin, beckett
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n07/toib01_.html; Dear old dirty Dublin This is a wonderful article by Colin Tóibín, one of Ireland's best contemporary authors. It is rich with learned and very readable impressions of the city, the literature, and the actors who struggled to interpret Samuel Beckett on the stage. Quote: "There is a peculiar intensity about some streets in Dublin which becomes more gnarled and layered the longer you live in the city and the greater the stray memories and associations you build up. Sometimes this sense of the city can be greatly added to by history and by books; sometimes, however, the past - I mean the distant past - and the books hardly matter, seem a strange irrelevance." PICTURE: The Bank of Ireland. "If I walk down to the Bank of Ireland at the corner of Westland Row and Pearse Street, which I do regularly, I hardly ever think about Leopold Bloom and the Kilkenny People or Stephen Daedalus and the ghost of Hamlet's father, even if I decide to walk the route down Kildare Street and past the National Library."