September 1991
Bring Your Board Meeting to Ireland
By Melissa Devine September 1991
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
Lucky Eyes & High Heart: An Interview with Anjelica Huston
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
First Word | The Irish in America
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
The Battle to Save the Burren
By Pat Musick September 1991
The Burren in northwest Clare, a wild region of bare limestone, vanishing lakes, and surprising wildflowers, is one of Europe's most remarkable habitats. Yet the most diverse and fragile part of it is under threat from the very government body charged with its protection. Controversy over the siting of a visitors' center has ranged from threats to a local resident's life to … [Read more...] about The Battle to Save the Burren