A Sampling of the Latest Irish Books
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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The Kelly Gang
Kelly comes second to Murphy as the most common surname in Ireland. The name is popular because it originates from at least seven different and unrelated ancient clans or septs.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Peace Process Put on Hold
The hopes that were raised in the latest advances in the peace process were dashed as Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble criticized the transparency of IRA decommissioning and said he was “putting the process on hold.”
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Bono Portrait Unveiled
Bono looked admiringly at the soft white portrait painted by one of today’s greatest Irish painters, Louis le Brocquy, an artist whom Bono has admired since he was 13, at an unveiling at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Irish Nuns Launch Website
A group of Irish nuns in Galway are both continuing their secluded religious worship and reaching out to the on-line world. The Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns founded by St. Clare of Assisi, have launched a website at
www.poorclares.ie.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Terrorists Plotted Against Kennedy and Hill
Irish Sunday Independent journalist Alan Murray unearthed a plot by loyalist terrorist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair to assassinate Courtney Kennedy, daughter of Robert Kennedy and her husband Paul Hill when they were in north Belfast in 1994.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Filmmakers Threaten to Leave Ireland
Recently Hollywood and the Irish government have come to blows over taxation. The debate is over the section 481 tax allowance, otherwise known as the film-tax incentive that has bolstered the film industry in Ireland by 18 percent over the last 10 years.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Press Freedoms
As Legal Affairs Reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, I enjoy covering the courts, not being hauled into them as a defendant in an international case about press freedoms.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Van Is Man of the Blues in His New Album
Morrison: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
First the good news. Both Van Morrison fans and anyone who likes jazz and blues will delight in listening to What’s Wrong With This Picture? Produced well with a full big band sound, track after track of lighthearted songs flow smoothly.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Traditional Spotlight
Grey Larsen and Paddy League combine their Celtic music forces for the second album they have released together, Dark of the Moon.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Quote Unquote
“Some people want to make the choice of being able to have a cigar or a pipe or a cigarette after dinner and they should be provided with an opportunity to do that.”
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Men in Shorts
My father played Gaelic football most of his life. He was the captain of the County Leitrim team that won the New York G.A.A. Football Championship in 1932.Sundays during the spring and summer months were a big day in the McGuire household. Mass in the morning was followed by a hearty breakfast and then off to Gaelic Park where Dad would either be playing or checking out the rival teams.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Horray for St. Stephen & Up Sraid
Eoin!
I look forward to the Christmas holidays more than anyone I’ve ever known. In addition to the main events, my birthday falls smack dab in the middle between Christmas and the New Year. All my life I’ve heard people say, “Oh you poor dear.”
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Letters
Lest We Forget- Redeeming Bing-Magdalene Sisters...
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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