World of Hibernia articles from June 2001

World of Hibernia archives from June 2001

Editor's page.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2001... Irish farming has had more than its fair share of troubles over the past few weeks. And the effects have rippled through Irish society at large. As the foot and mouth crisis in the UK escalated out of control and began to touch Irish shores, it...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2001... I have been a subscriber to The World of Hibernia since the beginning of its existence. It is my bible for traveling to Ireland each year. My reason for this note is not just to rave about your magazine. I am wondering why the Philadelphia...

What's hot. (crossroads).(current events news)(Brief Article)(Column)
June 22, 2001... After a tantalisingly long wait, the FOUR SEASONS has finally opened its elegant doors in Dublin 4. Given the chain's international reputation, its Dublin hotel is bound to attract a cosmopolitan clientele. Located just beside the historic...

A tale of two ... chefs. (crossroads).(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 22, 2001... Pierre Schaedelin Age: 32 Where do you live? I live in an apartment in New York City, just a few blocks from Le Cirque, so I can walk to work. What made you decide to become a chef? I watched my mom cook all the time and...

Trail riding in Donegal. (Time Out).(Homefield Equestrian Trails)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The northwest of Ireland boasts an unusual landscape that is both rugged and wild, but far from bleak. On the contrary, this part of the island has been the subject of the work of many poets and painters, among whom have been such luminaries as...

Seamus Heaney: Electric Light. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Seamus Heaney: Electric Light (Faber, 8.99 [pounds sterling] Seamus Heaney's poetry offers a sense of reassurance. It is familiar without being predictable; affirming without being complacent. Whether the voice is at its most lyric, or...

Maureen Dezell: Irish America: Coming Into Clover --The Evolution of a People and a Culture. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Maureen Dezell: Irish America: Coming Into Clover -- The Evolution of a People and a Culture (Doubleday $24.95) Boston Globe staff writer Maureen Dezell describes her book as a "snapshots of a subculture taken at the turn of the millennium,...

Tom Hayden & Roy Harrington Exploring Irish Mammals. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Tom Hayden & Roy Harrington Exploring Irish Mammals (Town House, 20 [pounds sterling] This exciting book, which will find itself in many cars and suitcases offers a marvellous insight into Ireland's natural history and heritage. Billy...

Nuala O'Faolain: My Dream of You. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Naula O'Faolain: My Dream of You (Michael Joseph, 12.99 [pounds sterling]) Despite the fact that Nuala O'Faolain's autobiography Are You Somebody? was a number one best seller for 26 weeks in Ireland and in the New York Times Top Ten for...

Crystal Clear: Solo Violin by Cape Breton Fiddler Jerry Holland. (The CD Player).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Crystal Clear: Solo Violin by Cape Breton Fiddler Jerry Holland (Cranford Publishing) St Patrick's Day in Dublin, cold and quiet. One of the few events still happening was the antiques fair at the RDS. The lure of the bargain, of...

Na Dorsa: The Wild Music of the Gael. (The CD Player).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Na Dorsa: The Wild Mucis of the Gael (privately published nadorsa@yahoo.com) Recent years have seen the emergence of a plethora of new young traditional groups in Ireland and their success and popularity may be in some measure attributed...

Richie Buckley: Your Love is Here. (The CD Player).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Richie Buckley: Your Love is Here (Hummingbird Records) Jazz, for some reason, still remains on the periphery in this country, despite the efforts of some of the jazz societies, who continue to provide the public with some excellent...

Noel O'Grady: The Enchanted Way. (The CD Player).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Noel O'Grady: The Enchanted Way (privately published www.noelogrady.com). Noel O'Grady is an amazing man. A Commandant in the Irish Army, he has served with the United Nations both in the Middle East and in Latin America. He's an inventor...

Launch of the New York issue of The World of Hibernia.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The New York Irish American community overcame their post-St. Patrick's Week exhaustion to attend the celebration of the New York issue of The World of Hibernia. Held at hip New York martini lounge, H2K, guests delighted in the candle-lit...

The green files. (crossroads).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... When I launched The World of Hibernia, we sent a copy to each of the US State Governors, suggesting that the magazine might be of interest given the role of the Irish in the development of every US state. Many of the governors wrote to thank...

From San Francisco to Dublin: it's wet, the Irish undersell themselves, and they drive on the wrong side of the road. But, after nine years in Cork, Bruce Carolan couldn't imagine living anywhere else. (Moving People).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Bruce Carolan is a classic example of the child of Irish emigrants bringing it all back home. Currently Head of Legal Studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology, his brief visit to Ireland resulted in a complete change of lifestyle, from...

Diary. (crossroads).
June 22, 2001... WICKLOW GARDEN FESTIVAL (May 18-21) The festival gives people a truly unique opportunity to visit some of Ireland's most fascinating and delightful private gardens, which would not normally be accessible to the public, but welcome visitors...

Tony O'Malley: the road less traveled. (Portrait of an Artist).
June 22, 2001... The controversial French and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once wrote something to the effect that truth has the structure of fiction. He most likely meant that the truth about people wasn't necessarily reflected in an objective statement of the...

The great the good the GAA: since its foundation in 1884, the Gaelic Athletic Association has been a integral part of the Irish identity, inextricably woven into the fabric of Irish society and witness to the political and social changes in Ireland for more than a century. Where would we be, asks Tom Humphries, without its grandeur? (Cover Story).
June 22, 2001... In winter when the season is fallow and the tongues are idle the talk in Dublin always gets around to the GAA and its many sins. Many Irish people have an odd attitude towards their national games and, in that respect, the stewardship of the...

Fragile beauty: the ESB environmental photography awards.(Electricity Supply Board)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Let up in 1927 to generate and supply the Irish nation, the Electricity Supply Board has been synonymous with Ireland's social and economic development. It is also closely involved with the attempts to strike a balance between economic...

When hope confronts history: Adi Roche and the Chernobyl children's project.
June 22, 2001... If she had another life to live, in an ideal world where wishes came true and there were no children dying of radiation sickness or abuse or neglect to worry her, then Adi Roche would love to be "a backing singer for a really good group. I'm a...

Giants in their own city: Belfast has gone ice hockey crazy! As the inaugural season of the belfast giants attracted huge crowds and exceeded all expectations, it seems that ice hockey fever is here to stay.
June 22, 2001... What is the new phenomenon to hit Northern Ireland? It involves speed skating and a vulcanised rubber puck and is more associated with North America than Ireland. I am of course talking about ice hockey. In the shadow of the giant cranes of...

Ned Kelly -- the wild colonial boy: an excerpt from the True History of the Kelly Gang. (Cover Story).(Excerpt)
June 22, 2001... I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell...

Peter Carey: retrieving the past.
June 22, 2001... Irish hearts have always managed to reserve some space for the Australian bush outlaw Ned Kelly who lived fast and died young (or so the story goes. Kelly, born of Irish stock, certainly died young. It seems too easy to forget that he was only...

Corporate chieftains: Patrick J. McGovern, founder and chairman of International Data Group (IDG).
June 22, 2001... What separates a successful entrepreneur from one whose ideas fall by the wayside? Surely timing and luck play a part. But so, too, does an insatiable curiosity to learn, a confidence to take risks, and a talent to create superior products that...

A summer of learning.(list of courses and schools)(Directory)
June 22, 2001... THE SEASON OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL IS UPON US AGAIN. FAST BECOMING AN INSTITUTION, IF NOT AN ACTUAL INDUSTRY, IN IRISH CULTURAL LIFE, THE VARIETY OF SPECIALIST STUDY ON OFFER IS TRULY AMAZING. THE SUMMER SCHOOL PROVIDES NOT ONLY A CHANCE FOR STUDY...

Location, location, location. (Promotional Feature).(investing in Irish real estate)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... With Irish property returns now among the best in Europe, this asset class looks like a very good bet indeed, and both European and US institutional and private investors are increasing their exposure to it. These are nervous times for...

Listowell writers week. (COVER STORY).(Irish author's festival)(Cover Story)
June 22, 2001... The cream of Irish writers will take the road to Kerry in May for Ireland's unique and sociable literary festival, Listowel Writers' Week. This year's event, which will be held from May 30 to June 3, 2001, features poets Richard Murphy and...

Scattering the search for the Clare Diaspora: what began as a simple wish to capture the diverse emigrant experience of one Irish county in a unique book of photographs evolved into a moving and beautiful account of the lives of sixty emigrants spread around the globe.(The Scattering--Images of Emigrants from an Irish County)(Excerpt)
June 22, 2001... Michael Power Photography by Patrick McHugh Michael Power was born in 1966 and grew up in Barr-na-Gaoithe, Darragh. After leaving school he worked for a year in Dublin before going to New York. In 1987 he joined the NYPD and is now, a...

The road to old graigue.(family photographs of Irish americans)
June 22, 2001... There is nothing unusual in children and grandchildren of Irish emigrants coming to Ireland to take pictures of the old home place. What is unique about the Weber/Cronin collection of photographs, however, is that they were taken 70 years ago...

The art of buying. (Promotional Feature).(20th century art at auction)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... The prices being achieved by 20th century art at auction continue to give pause to art commentators. Last year for the very first time a living Irish artist, Louis Le Brocquy achieved a record Stg 1.58 [pounds sterling] million for his painting...

Secret gardens.
June 22, 2001... Visitors to Ireland are often surprised at the "palm trees" that thrust skywards in many a small front garden. SUrely such tropicality is impossible this far north, along the same latitude as the prairies and badlands of south Alberta in...

The crown prince: when it comes to modern jewelry design, Slim Barrett, the Irishman credited with the revival of chainmail and charms, crowns and tiaras, likes to break the rules. And he does so in spectacular ways.
June 22, 2001... Slim Barrett's anarchic and inventive creations--take, for instance, the diamond and gold coronet worn by Spice Girl Victoria Adams on her wedding day or his award-winning chainmail necklace made with 336 diamonds that folds into the hand--have...

Pilgrims' progress.(Saint Patrick's Purgatory, Donegal)
June 22, 2001... You can think of Station Island as a holy Alcatraz, I'd been told. And so it seemed as the boat chugged across Donegal's Lough Derg, through a zinc-grey mist, to the island site of Saint Patrick's Purgatory. The high walls of the island's...

The website guide. (web guide).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Nowadays you can learn everything you want to know about Ireland without leaving the comfort of your easy chair. Already forging a reputation as a key location for IT companies, Ireland also boasts a dizzying array of websites where you can...

The IMMA decade.(rish Museum of Modern Art)
June 22, 2001... The first decade of the 20th century saw the opening of Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. In 1979 the city authorities amended the name to The Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, as a tribute to its founder and benefactor, an art collector...

Altan airs.(Dublin-based band 'Altan')
June 22, 2001... We are surrounded by oxymorons. Jumbo shrimp. Office efficiency. Army intelligence, maybe. Or traditional music stars, a term that pretty well sums up Altan. For nearly 20 years the Dublin-based band have carried the sounds of their native...

Gods and slaves.(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... Their mother always said that if any of the girls got pregnant their father would throw her out in the street. This warning acted more effectively than any threat to their own security, keeping them in a state of grace for longer than was...

Ties that bind.(Clare Boylan)
June 22, 2001... If the Irish ever fully sexually liberated," Clare Boylan laughs, "I don't think we'd ever write a line. I have a feeling it might be like that." The Irish novelist and short-story writer and I are dining in a red-brick hotel on the quiet...

The edge.(buying a house in Dublin)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... We are looking for a house. That's right. My loved ones and I now walk among the wretched of the earth. We are looking for a house in Dublin. Wherever we wind up we will be making repayments in the next life. We are looking for a house and the...