World of Hibernia articles from December 2000

World of Hibernia archives from December 2000

Editor's Page.
December 22, 2000... When it comes to great political figures, we Irish have always suffered an embarrassment of riches--Wolftone, O'Connell, Parnell, Collins, Kennedy, Moynihan, to name but a few. And then there's John Hume. Passionate, resolute, and...

letters.(Letter to the Editor)
December 22, 2000... DEAR EDITOR, I have been an admirer of the Wexford Opera Festival for many years and I would like to congratulate you on the wonderful article "Of Drama and Divas," which appeared in your autumn issue. Beautifully written by Ian Fox and...

What's Hot.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The Irish countryside is sprucing up its act, with more that 1.2 million trees now being planted as part of MILLENNIUM FORESTS, the 5m [pounds sterling] initiative to restore Irish woodlands with native broadleaf species in commemoration of the...

A Tale of Two ... Architects.(Pamela Kennedy, John R. Shields)(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 22, 2000... Pamela Kennedy Age: 50 Where were you born? Dublin What is your marital status? I am married with two children, Alex (19) and Geoffroy (14). Where do you live? We own a house in Cabinteely, which is ten miles...

Tim Pat Coogan: Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of The Irish Diaspora.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Tim Pat Coogan: Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of The Irish Diaspora (Hutchinson, London, 25 [pounds sterling]) I approached this book as an interested reader and not as an expert in the history of the diaspora. I also admit to a certain...

Basil Walsh: Catherine Hayes: Hibernian Prima Donna.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Basil Walsh: Catherine Hayes: Hibemian Prima Donna (Irish Academic Press, 35 [pounds sterling]) Thank you, Mr Walsh, for extending our horizons with this delightful story of an entrancing heroine," writes Richard Bonynge in the foreword to...

Carlo Gebler: Father and I: A Memoir.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Carlo Gebler: Father and I: A Memoir. (Little, Brown, 16.99 [pounds sterling]) Anyone who's read The Cure (1994) or How To Murder a Man (1998) recognizes that Carlo Gebler is one of the finest novelists now working in Ireland, so it comes...

John McCourt: The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920.(Review)
December 22, 2000... John McCourt: The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (The Lilliput Press, 25 [pounds sterling]) Scholars apart, when most people think of James Joyce's 47 years in self-imposed exile, they think of his lengthy sojourn in Paris...

Liam O'Flaherty: The Collected Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Liam O'Flaherty: The Collected Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty (Wolfhound Press, 50 [pounds sterling]) Just as William Trevor and John McGahern are the great Irish short story writers of our time, Sean O Faolain, Frank O'Connor and Liam...

Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis: You Win Again (Virgin).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis: You Win Again (Virgin) When Van Morrison first met pianist and singer Linda Gail Lewis at a convention for her brother (none other than the infamous Jerry Lee Lewis) in South Wales in 1993 there was no hint...

"An Irish Lullaby" Padraigin Ni Uallachain (Shanachie).(Review)
December 22, 2000... "An Irish Lullaby" Padraigin Ni Uallachain (Shanachie) There have been many theme-centered compilations of Celtic music released in recent years. If you favor tender love songs, boisterous drinking songs, or albums that showcase...

"In My Prime," Niamh Parsons (Green Linnet).(Review)
December 22, 2000... "In My Prime," Niamh Parsons (Green Linnet) In My Prime" is a pretty assertive title for an album. But if it's traditional Irish singer Niamh Parsons making the claim, it's probably an accurate one. On this, her second album for Green...

U2 AlI That You Can't Leave Behind (Island Records).(Review)
December 22, 2000... U2 AlI That You Can't Leave Behind (Island Records) In their 20-plus year career U2 have developed from being just another north Dublin garage rock band to being arguably the world's most successful rock band. The debate over whether this...

Fishing in Ballina.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The largest population center in Mayo, Ballina is located in the north of the county, quite a distance from Mayo's other major towns of Westport and Castlebar. Traditionally a market town, serving the huge area of north Mayo, Ballina has one...

From Rochester to Ashford.(American moves to Ireland)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Although she boasts some Irish ancestry on her mother's side, in no way was this a "roots" trip. She and her girly pals had "done" Hawaii and reckoned Ireland might be fun and well, they spoke English there. After six weeks carousing and...

Portrait of an artist: A Force of Nature.
December 22, 2000... If there is an underlying unity to the exceptional stylistic diversity of Tim Goulding's work as a painter, it surely has to do with his experience of nature, and specifically his continuing source of inspiration--his home on the wild and...

John Hume: The Peacemaker.
December 22, 2000... From the civil rights marches of the 1960s and the barricades of the 1970s to the tentative negotiations of the 1980s and the all-party discussions of the 1990s, John Hume has been the north star, the guiding light for the countless and often...

My Ireland, My Wife.
December 22, 2000... I am married to a most wonderful Irish woman, Anne. Her family came to America from County Mayo many years ago. We live in Ulster County--Ulster County, New York, that is. We have been married for more than two decades and have three children...

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE.(Irish architect, engineer design new speedway)
December 22, 2000... The American car culture has enjoyed auto racing from as early as 1902, with the first races on Daytona Beach over 20 miles of hard packed sand. The winners averaged 57 miles per hour back then, which seems like nothing compared to the 200...

THE BREHON LAWS.(early Irish legal system)
December 22, 2000... The early Irish had a fine and very distinctive legal system, sometimes called "Brehon law" from the Irish word breitheamh, meaning "judge." The documents, which describe this system, date mainly from the 7th and 8th centuries, but it is clear...

AN ANCIENT AND HONORABLE SOCIETY.(King's Inns)
December 22, 2000... SET IN PEACEFUL GARDENS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF DUBLIN A MARK OF RESPECT FOR KING HENRY VIII, WAS FOUNDED IN 1541 AND HAS EDUCATED SOME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES IN IRELAND Founded in 1541 by ambitious lawyers, King's Inns is one of...

Enya at ease.
December 22, 2000... Imagine a place where a calm atmosphere surrounds your every step as you walk through exquisite rooms. A place where the echoes of history expand the heart and soothe the mind, and where the spirit can find repose. A haven of light. Picture...

THE WONDER OF OUR WATERWAYS.(inland water transportation)
December 22, 2000... Once the life blood of the country, many of the inland waterways of Ireland derelick when commercial freight traffic ceased some 40 years ago. But the navigable rivers, lakes and canals of Ireland are experiencing something of a...

Homeward Bound.(Irish emigration)
December 22, 2000... Emigration has been an integral part of our national identity. Although the reasons people left Ireland may have changed--from economic hardship and desperation to broadening horizons and high-powered careers--our young people still left in...

LONG ISLAND MACKEREL YAWLS.(fishing boat repicas)
December 22, 2000... FIRST BUILT SOME TIME AFTER THE GREAT FAMINE AND USED UNTIL THE 1950s, THE LONG ISLAND MACKERAL YAWLS HAD BEEN CONSIGNED TO THE MEMORIES OF THE WEST CORK FISHERMEN WHO HAD SAILED THEM. UNTIL, THAT IS, LOCAL MEN LIAM HEGARTY AND NIGEL TOWSE...

THE SHAMROCK.(Poem)
December 22, 2000... The fifteenth day of April, 1945 Two sailor men in shabby clothes In Colla did arrive, For a berth aboard the Shamrock(*) To plough the raging main. One was James Murphy, the other Jack Brisbane. Old Jack lives...

SEARCHING FOR ELLEN.(letters provide genealogical link)
December 22, 2000... It was an old letter from Ireland, passed down through four generations of my family, that led me to my McKenna ancestor's place of origin in Ireland and to Ellen Meagher's letter. My father kept with his papers an 1882 letter to a "Dear Uncle"...

The Age of Elegance.(fashion designer Peter O'Brien)
December 22, 2000... Oscar Wilde once said that one should never give a woman anything she couldn't wear in the evening. He would have found an embarrassment of riches in Dublin-born Peter O'Brien's first haute couture collection shown at the Irish Embassy in Paris...

The Beauty and Bounty of Beara.
December 22, 2000... Long long ago, Owen Mor, king of Munster, married a king's daughter in Spain and sailed with her back to Ireland. Their landfall was the mountain ridge peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic, where the waters of Bantry Bay and Kenmare Bay lap...

The Miners of Beara and Butte.(Irish emigration to Montana)
December 22, 2000... Father Sarsfield O Sullivan is a retired priest who still lives in Butte, Montana. He remembers hearing from his father Sean who emigrated to Butte from Bere Island that one year he had two cousins living in Butte, and the next he counted 42...

Clean Living.(spas)
December 22, 2000... The charm of the Irish, our visitors tell us, is our relaxed attitude to life. There is no better place therefore, if one wishes to de-stress and/or de-tox. Our health farms (a generic term that covers spas, de-tox centers and health centers)...

Christmas in Sarajevo.(Irish peacekeepers)
December 22, 2000... The very first Christmas of the new millennium will be celebrated, with all its festivities, in Sarajevo, capital of the new emerging Balkan State of Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH). Helping to make the most of those festivities will be a small, but...

The Plough is the Star.
December 22, 2000... It's a permanent fixture in the diary of the President of Ireland. It's an event that neither the Taoiseach and Leader of the Opposition can afford to miss. It's Ireland's biggest annual outdoor event, which this year attracted more than...

Kilkenny Arts Festival.(music and theater, Kilkenny, Ireland)
December 22, 2000... What better way to brighten up these long winter evenings than by taking a look at the energy and vibrancy that was this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival? First staged in 1973, the Kilkenny Arts Festival has developed to the position where it...

Places to Stay.(hotels and motels, Ireland)
December 22, 2000... THE ALEXANDER HOTEL at Merrion Square Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 607 3700 Fax: +353 1 661 5663 Email: alexanderres@ocallaghanhotels.ie http://www.ocallaghanhotels.ie or call Supranational Hotels toll free 1 800 569 9983 Price...

The Clash of the Ash.(history, nationalism and Ireland)(Excerpt)(Fiction)
December 22, 2000... History will record that of all the misfortunes to have befallen the downtrodden Irish, none was as dangerous or debilitating as the tidal wave of wealth that mercilessly struck the nation in the late 20th century. Our brave little island,...

THE HILL BACHELORS.(Short Story)
December 22, 2000... In the kitchen of the farmhouse she wondered what they'd do about her, what they'd suggest. It was up to them; she couldn't ask. It wouldn't be seemly to ask, it wouldn't feel right. She was a small woman, spare and wiry, her mourning...

WILLIAM TREVOR.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The Irish writer William Trevor is one of the finest storytellers in the world. That is a statement of fact, not opinion. In an outstanding caree, which began quietly enough in 1958 with his debut novel, A Standard of Behaviour, now largely...

THE EDGE.(the national dream and Ireland)(Brief Article)(Column)
December 22, 2000... I know a woman who lives in Chicago, and her life has been divided into two parts--the part where she worked in the jewelery shop and the part where she worked as a manicurist. She's bright and happy, this woman. She says that all she ever...