World of Hibernia articles from March 1999

World of Hibernia archives from March 1999

CORPORATE CHIEFTAINS.
March 22, 1999... Gary Horan scanned his office for Irish mementos. "Oh, I've got a picture of when we signed the affiliation agreement. Is that an Irish memento?" he asked. There's a photograph behind his desk that marks the beginning of a formal relationship...

GIFT OF THE GAB.
March 22, 1999... Quintessential Kerryman J.B. Keane muses on the machinations of the uninvited guest. Last week we had seven rounds of visitors, none of whom had any real claim on our hospitality. They came, they saw, and they ate. Then they vamoosed. The...

Professor Barry O'Donnell.(elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Professor Barry O'Donnell, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Surgery, confronted one of his most challenging positions to date when he was elected President of the Royal College of...

BRINGING HOME THE BACON.
March 22, 1999... Ninety years after his birth in Dublin and more than 70 years after he fled Ireland, reportedly after being caught by his father in his mother's undergarments, Francis Bacon has made a triumphal return to Ireland. (In a manner of speaking.) ...

MYSTERY WOMAN.(Irish artist Rita Duffy)
March 22, 1999... Some years ago, I interviewed Rita Duffy during an exhibition of her work in Dublin. We talked about where she grew up, where she attended school, and where she lived at the time. She smiled when we got onto the question of her residence....

Fighting Fire with Fire.(Irish-Americans in the Boston Fire Department)
March 22, 1999... The Irish have always been known for their fiery, personalities. But for the estimated 500 men and women of the Boston Fire Department Who claim Irish ancestry, fire is much more than a character, trait. It's a way of life. The names tell...

the Land.(visiting Cork, Ireland)
March 22, 1999... THE COUNTY OF CORK SHARES WITH ITS NEIGHBOR KERRY A PRIME LOCATION IN THE SOUTHWEST OF IRELAND. REGARDLESS OF WHERE ONE MIGHT ARRIVE OR DEPART ON A TRIP TO THE EMERALD ISLE, A VISIT TO THE HEART OF THIS REBEL COUNTY IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST, A...

The Culture.(city of Cork, Ireland)
March 22, 1999... IRELAND'S THIRD-LARGEST CITY, AFTER DUBLIN AND BELFAST, CORK HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN AN IMPORTANT SEAPORT. INDEED, SUCH IS THE CONFIDENCE AND SWAGGER OF THE NATIVE POPULACE THAT THEY CONTINUALLY REFER TO IT AS "THE REAL CAPITAL." AS THE CULTURAL...

The History.(Irish city of Cobh)
March 22, 1999... COBH CITY OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FAREWELLS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THERE ARE CITIES THAT MANY WOULD SAY ARE A GHOST OF THEIR FORMER SELVES, PLACES THAT ONCE BUSTLED WITH ACTIVITY YET NOW LIE NEARLY DORMANT. MYRIAD RUINS OF DEAD CITIES OF THE...

the Business.(U.S. businesses in Cork County, Ireland)
March 22, 1999... U.S. INDUSTRY IN CORK Cork. A county marked by a tumultuous history, where rebellion ran side-by-side with record numbers of transient emigrants, Cork has always been at the center of Irish affairs. It is an Old World city embracing river...

THE IRISH IN LEBANON.
March 22, 1999... In the desolate mountains of southern Lebanon, Irish soldiers have been an integral part of a near-impossible United Nations peace-keeping mission for 20 years. In the face of war, terrorist attacks, and Byzantine negotiations that seem to go...

THE medical IRISH.(Irish doctor's and researcher's contributions to medicine)
March 22, 1999... THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE IRISH TO THE FIELD OF WESTERN MEDICINE ARE LEGION. FROM DR. ROBERT JAMES GRAVES, WHO ADVOCATED BEDSIDE CLINICAL INSTRUCTION AND DISPARAGED THE 18TH-CENTURY PRACTICES OF BLOODLETTING AND BLISTERING, TO BARRY EDWARD...

HOOP DREAMS.(Irish basketball)
March 22, 1999... PROVING THAT WHITE MEN CAN INDEED JUMP, THE IRISH HAVE EMBRACED THE SPORT OF BASKETBALL WITH SURPRISING ENTHUSIASM. A QUARTER CENTURY AFTER THE SPORT'S IRISH DEBUT, THE FREE STATE SENT ITS FIRST AND ONLY BASKETBALL TEAM TO THE OLYMPICS....

Art of the Deal.(Irish 18th century art popular)
March 22, 1999... INVESTING IN IRELAND FOURTH OF FOUR IN A SERIES Often unsigned and, until recently, undervalued, Irish art of the 18th century has come into its own. With the gentrification of Dublin in full swing, serious collectors are increasingly...

Ireland's Pirate Queen.(Grace O'Malley)
March 22, 1999... THE SCOURCE OF THE HIGH SEAS DURING THE 16TH CENTURY, SLIGO-BORN GRANUAILE WAS A WOMAN AHEAD OF HER TIME. There came to me also a most famous feminine sea captain called Granny Imallye [who] offered her services wheresover I would command...

Looking for Jimmy.(changing conceptions of Irish Americans)
March 22, 1999... Best-selling author Peter Quinn examines the evolution of the urban Irish-American male from vilified "Paddy" to smooth-talking Jimmy. The photograph of the 11 ironworkers perched nonchalantly on an I-beam suspended over midtown Manhattan...

Irish Pubs Around the World.(Irish pubs are opening up around the world)
March 22, 1999... Evan Blake had been in Paris a mere three months, but already parts of the city seemed no different from his hometown in County Clare. "Suddenly you just walk down the street and you see a big Guinness sign," he said. "When you realize the...

Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera By T. Ryle Dwyer (Gill & Macmillan, 19.99 [pounds sterling]) T. Ryle Dwyer has come up with a clever notion. In recent years, much has been written about both Michael...

Crazy John and the Bishop.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Crazy John and the Bishop By Terry Eagleton (University of Notre Dame Press in association with Field Day, $14.95) Ever since he burst on the scene some 30 years ago with Marxism and Literary Criticism, Terry Eagleton, now Thomas Warton...

A Dictionary Of Hiberno-English.(Review)
March 22, 1999... A Dictionary Of Hiberno-English By Terence J. Dolan (Gill & Macmillan, 25 [pounds sterling]) "My father was `a culchie, and I'm a jackeen, but a lot of blarney and blather, not to mention codology, is talked about where one comes from, and...

An Age of Innocence (Irish Culture 1930-1960).(Review)
March 22, 1999... An Age of Innocence (Irish Culture 1930-1960) By Brian Fallon (St. Martin's Press, $59.95) Brian Fallon, the semi-retired former chief critic of The Irish Times, has produced a book of cultural counter-revisionism, the central thesis of...

Sharon Shannon Spellbound--The Best of Sharon Shannon.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Sharon Shannon Spellbound--The Best of Sharon Shannon [Grapevine] Part of what some would describe as the "new wave" of traditional musicians, Sharon Shannon has done more for the humble button accordion than perhaps anyone in the entire...

Charlotte Church Voice of an Angel.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Charlotte Church Voice of an Angel [Sony Classical] Charlotte Church is a Welsh soprano whose debut album entered the U.K. charts at number 24 and the classical album chart at number 1. This feat would not be remarkable in and of itself but...

Claddagh's Choice An Anthology of Traditional Irish Music.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Claddagh's Choice An Anthology of Traditional Irish Music [Claddagh Records] For those who want a quick introduction to Irish traditional music, recent releases have made their quest not only effortless but remarkably comprehensive. This...

Eileen Ivers Crossing the Bridge.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Eileen Ivers Crossing the Bridge [Sony Classical] Eileen Ivers's third album proves once and for all the adaptability of Irish melodies and rhythms to just about every musical style that exists on the planet. Crossing the Bridge...

THE IRISH CIRCUIT.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... FROM EUROVISION TO EUROPOLITICS Dana Rosemary Scallon--the Derry singer who shot to fame after winning the 1970 Eurovision contest, and who had the great honor of welcoming Pope John Paul II to St. Louis, Mo., this past January--was never...

What's hot in Ireland.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... A sure sign of the times is Dublin's latest cultural boom, not in pubs or nightclubs, but in healthy eating. Joining the Nectar Bar in Ranelagh is the aptly named Nude; apt that is when you consider that the food will be entirely without...

St. Patrick's Day.
March 22, 1999... THE CHILDREN OF LIR COLLECTION The unique Children of Lir collection has been inspired by the ancient Irish legend of King Lir's four children - Fionnuala, Fiacra, Conn and Aed - who were turned into magical swans for 900 years by their...

Places to Stay.(Ireland)(Review)
March 22, 1999... THE ALEXANDER HOTEL at Merrion Square Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 607 3700 Fax: +353 1 661 5663 Email: alexanderhotel@tinet.ie http://www.alexanderhotel.ie or call InterContinental Hotels toll free 1 800 327 0200 Price Guide: Rooms...

Celtic.com.
March 22, 1999... Celtic.com is the new email service and online Celtic community for the 70 million people of Irish descent around the world. Since its launch on December 21st 1998 the Celtic.com service has generated phenomenal interest - 50,000 unique...

here ... there.
March 22, 1999... KENMARE, NORTH DAKOTA, USA Location: Ward County, 50 miles northwest of Minot, North Dakota. Origins: Founded in 1897, when the town's first official post office opened. Kenmare's original settlers were primarily Scandinavians coming...

ENCORE.
March 22, 1999... He is more than 200 years old, yet thanks to a recent restoration at the National Gallery of Ireland, a precious statue of Cupid doesn't look a day over 15. The museum unveiled the newly restored sculpture, Amorino, late last year as the...