Irish America

Irish America

1992

Beckett Festival: First of Its Kind

By Frances Haines

February 1992

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The Beckett Festival at the Gate Theatre during Dublin's Theatre Festival was the first ever of its kind, presenting all 19 of Beckett's plays in just three weeks. One couldn't help wishing Sam were there to witness the hugely favorable response of ordinary theatergoers to plays once reputed to be of extraordinary difficulty. Even though I didn't get to see the entire … [Read more...] about Beckett Festival: First of Its Kind

Black ’47: The Clancy Brothers of the 90’s?

By Patrick Farrelly

February 1992

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As Larry Kirwan, the wiry lead guitarist and singer drags out this melodramatic emigration song, the eyes of the young Irish woman beside me mist over. She silently mouthes the words to herself as Chris Byre's plaintive tin whistle comes in over Kirwan's dirge. Byre, his crew-cut head bowed, dark shades hung low, continues with a slow air on the tin whistle, adding to the … [Read more...] about Black ’47: The Clancy Brothers of the 90’s?

“Over There”

By Mary Pat Kelly

February 1992

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Americans Stationed in N. Ireland During WWII Remember that last scene in Yankee Doodle Dandy? An elderly George M. Cohan, played by an artificially aged Jimmy Cagney comes from an audience with Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S. has just entered World War II. Cohan feels left behind by a generation that doesn't remember the days when he dominated Broadway, first in his family's … [Read more...] about “Over There”

JFK The Movie

By Michael Pakenham

February 1992

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"It is distressing, and saddening," said Senator Edward Kennedy about the movie JFK. "Obviously it's a very painful experience to have, you know, the advertisements, the pictures, the scenes," Kennedy told an interviewer on WGMC-TV. The memory of the assassination of a much-loved President is distressing and saddening to all of us. Oliver Stone's movie drew fire even before it … [Read more...] about JFK The Movie

The Green, Green Greens of Home

By John Redmond

February 1992

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There is a lovely story told about a day in the hospitable south of Ireland when a couple of American tourists rolled into the car-park of Lahinch golf club in a gleaming, rented limo. When they asked if a club member might be available to accompany them on their round, a caddie was dispatched up the village to fetch the local butcher. He duly arrived and when the game got … [Read more...] about The Green, Green Greens of Home