Irish America
Irish America
If you could count back through enough pairs of grandparents, it could be that you have some genetic ties to that astonishing people, the Celts, whose art, conquests and legends burs forth in vivid profusion in the era of Europe's pre-Christian foundation. An exhibition in the splendid Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy this year sets out gleaming treasury of Celtic achievement … [Read more...] about The Celtic Twilight
No wonder that people involved in the Irish tourism industry are so alive to the value of cultivating business meetings and incentive travel. While other aspects of the travel trade bow to such hazards as tough economic times or terrorist threats to foreign travel, one area that seems resistant to such pressures is incentive/business tourism. If we can define business tourism … [Read more...] about Bring Your Board Meeting to Ireland
Anjelica Huston's portrayal of Maerose in Prizzi's Honor, earned her an Academy Award in 1986. Since then she has starred in Nicolas Roeg's Witches, in Paul Mazursky's Enemies, a Love Story, in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and most recently as Lily the complex con artist in The Grifters. But perhaps her most poignant performance was as Gretta in the film version of … [Read more...] about Lucky Eyes & High Heart: An Interview with Anjelica Huston
I remember the day I first learned of the Famine —walking home from school afterwards, through the miles of country roads bordered by the lush green fields of rich Tipperary farmland – looking at the grass and thinking of how many had died with green stains on their mouths from eating it in a last faint effort to survive. I still remember that day so clearly now all those … [Read more...] about First Word | The Irish in America
