World of Hibernia articles from March 2001

World of Hibernia archives from March 2001

Editor's page.(New York Irish)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The Irish have always been a vital part of the lifeblood of New York City. For generation after generation they have policed its streets, built its skyscrapers, fought its fires, and governed its citizens. That tradition of public service...

Letters.
March 22, 2001... I just had to write and let you know how much I enjoy reading your magazine. The range of topics covered is really extensive. I particularly like your series on inspirational figures from Irish history, which is so informative and yes,...

What's hot. (crossroads).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Bright young things can now take a trip to Dakota without leaving Dublin--the DAKOTA BAR, that is. Located in South William Street in the heart of the capital, it has instantly become a favorite haunt for style junkies. * In January of this...

A tale of two ... doctors. (crossroads).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Dublin Eilis McGovern Age: 45 What is your marital status? I am married with two children, Sophie (10) and Emma (13). Where do you live? Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin. Do you own or rent your property? We own a house. ...

Rock climbing in Dalkey. (Time Out).(Dublin, Ireland)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The small village of Dalkey is located approximately nine miles south of Dublin's city center. A port in Norman times, the village was known as "the town of seven castles." Two castles still survive today and the village's idyllic milieu has...

Collected Poems. (The Critical Reader).(Richard Murphy's poetry)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Richard Murphy: Collected Poems (Gallery Books, 25 [pounds sterling]) richard Murphy is the most ignored major Irish poet of the last forty years. This is not to say that he's critically disparaged, but that he's carved such a solitary...

Irish classics. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Declan Kiberd: Irish Classics (Granta Books, 25 [pounds sterling]) declan Kiberd's last book, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, commanded a lot of critical attention, and with good reason, given its provocatively...

The Far Side of A Kiss. (The Critical Reader).(Anne Haverty's new novel)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anne Haverty: The Far Side of A Kiss (Chatto, 12.99 [pounds sterling] UK) in 1823 the great English essayist William Hazlitt published Liber Amoris, his "book of love." By then he was 45 with seven years left to live. Although he was...

What Are You Like. (The Critical Reader).(Anne Enright's new novel)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Anne Enright: What Are You Like (Cape, 10 UK [pounds sterling]) anne Enright's increasing confidence as a writer lends the brashness of the New Ireland to her fiction. This tough, honest second novel takes questions of identity at its...

Won't You Take Me Home--The RCA Years. (The CD Player).(Brian Kennedy's latest)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Brian Kennedy: Won't You Take Me Home--The RCA Years (BMG) brian Kennedy has been described as a singer who "possesses a voice that would charm angels." And for those who prefer their music a little more down to earth, a "Best of..."...

Various. (The CD Player).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Eist Aris: Various (Dara Records) with the success of the CD Eist--Songs in their Native Language, which has gone double platinum, Dara Records in association with Foras na Gaeilge have released a follow-up CD, Eist Aris in response to...

The Diamond Mountain Sessions. (The CD Player).(Sharon Shannon's latest release)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Sharon Shannon: The Diamond Mountain Sessions (Grapevine) clare musician Sharon Shannon might be best known as one of Ireland's top accordionists, but she can also play a mean tune on the fiddle, and is able to write and arrange music with...

Seven Nations. (The CD Player).(Review)
March 22, 2001... Seven Nations: Seven Nations (Q Records) Seven Nations is a group of five Florida-based musicians who have taken on the arduous task of fusing contemporary rock/pop music with Celtic music, an eclectic style that has failed many times in...

From New Jersey to Inverin: when Greg O Braonain visited Ireland in 1978, he knew immediately that he wanted to live here and learn the language. He did just that. Today he lives in Inverin, in the beautiful south Connemara Gaeltacht, and writes for the Irish language soap opera, Ros na Run. (Moving people).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... When US-born Greg Brennan first visited Ireland in 1978, it soon became clear to him that this was where he wanted to live. One of seven children, both his parents were born in the US but had strong Irish links--Greg's maternal grandparents...

Diary. (crossroads).(art exhibitions at Dublin, Ireland, galleries and museums)(Brief Article)(Directory)
March 22, 2001... NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND COLLINS BARRACKS, DUBLIN 7 (Ongoing exhibition) Becoming Furniture Becoming. More than thirty pieces of furniture, all designed and made by students and graduates of the Letterfrack Furniture College between 1990...

St. Patrick's day 2001: its that time of year again, so revel in your Irishness and make this St. Patrick's day one to remember.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Running for 45 years and attracting a crowd of more than 200,000, Baltimore's parade is always a spectacular affair. The 2001 Parade is scheduled for Sunday, March 18. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS The Downtown Chicago parade began in 1954 and the...

A thing of beauty: Belfast-born Martin Mooney is just as passionate about the art and craft of painting as he is about creating works of luminous beauty. A representational painter at a time when painting has been regarded as somewhat unfashionable, Mooney has persevered and now finds his work in great demand around the world. (Portrait Of An Artist).
March 22, 2001... Martin Mooney is strongly built, solid looking, fortyish, with a fast-receding hairline and an easy, affable manner. He is a Belfast-born artist who has, in a remarkably short time, carved out a formidable reputation for himself as a...

The new New York Irish.
March 22, 2001... Even before the Statue of Liberty started waving in those huddled masses, New York City was the destination of millions of Irish immigrants. And its brash, boisterous personality has been molded by names like James Farley, Jack Dempsey, Jimmy...

The adventures of Thomas Dongan.
March 22, 2001... In the 1680s, nearly 170 years before the flood of Irish immigrants fleeing the Famine arrived on American shores, an Irishman held a position of great power and influence in the New World. During his six-year tenure he put in place novel and...

We love New York!
March 22, 2001... On almost any Sunday afternoon in the New York Area, you can listen to Fordham University Radio's Irish program, Ceol na nGael, and hear singer Mary O'Dowd lament "when New York was Irish" as though it was part of New York's long lost past....

The loneliness of the long-distance angler.
March 22, 2001... Not another soul, let alone one with a camera, saw them--neither the ten-inch brown that filled me with inordinate satisfaction nor, that same afternoon, my unmerited gift from the angling gods. But by now I was used to my lonely state, and in...

The Princess Grace Irish library.
March 22, 2001... Almost twenty years after her tragic death in 1982, the memory of Princess Grace lives on in many hearts. For the generation that knew her charm and beauty, Grace Patricia Kelly lived up perfectly to her name. For Irish Americans she was a...

Reading the future.(Reading the Future--Irish Writers in Conversation with Mike Murphy)
March 22, 2001... At this crossroads in time, as one millennium fades and another begins Ireland and "things" Irish are held in extraordinarily high esteem world-wide. Particularly in literature. Irish writers sell millions of copies of their novels and...

The green screen: Irish films and film-makers are storming festivals and theaters around the world, turning the traditional silver screen a bright shade of green.
March 22, 2001... Like any parent, Terrence Mulligan encounters a range of emotions (joy, frustration, laughter, and concern) as he guides his baby on the path to adulthood. Unlike other parents, however, his two-year-old "child" is the New York Film Fleadh, and...

George Morrison --the Father of Irish Film: now nearly 80 years old, George Morrison, creator of Mise Eire and crusader for a national actuality archive, has been at the heart of Irish film for half a century.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... In the 1950s George Morrison made the landmark documentary, Mise Eire narrated in Irish by Padraig O'Raghallaigh and with a stirring score by Sean O Riada. The documentary was groundbreaking in the Irish context and its premiere made national...

House of treasures: once Dublin's best kept secret, the Chester Beatty Library and Gallery of Oriental Art is an absolute treasure trove. Clay tablets from Babylon and papyri from ancient Egypt are displayed alongside woodblock prints from Japan and early Christian bibles. Now located in the Clock Tower building at Dublin Castle, the CBL Galleries are waiting to be discovered.
March 22, 2001... for many years I was one of a relatively small number of people who enjoyed visiting the Chester Beatty Library and Gallery of Oriental Art in Shrewsbury Road. Variously described as Dublin's best-kept secret and inexplicably underutilized, it...

Meet the American Ireland fund board of directors: fifth in a multi-part series.(Craig Sullivan)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... "The American Ireland Fund is an organization that proactively seeks out worthy organizations through out the Republic and the North of Ireland where we can make a difference in people's lives." You're not likely to find a more concise...

Pat Doherty: the man from Buncrana.
March 22, 2001... When Patrick J. Doherty was a young lad in Buncrana, County Donegal, he had two options as for as his future was concerned education or emigration. He chose the latter, and carved out a successful business in the hardnosed London property...

Streets of Dublin.(Kevin C. Kearns's portrait of Dublin, Ireland)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
March 22, 2001... As Leon Uris once said, "Dublin is probably as much a state of mind as any place in the world." Its Georgian squares, secret gardens, empty beaches, and unspoilt mountains attract people the world over, but it is Dubliners who make this city a...

The Irish at Henley.(Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the Henley Royal Regatta)
March 22, 2001... There can be few more British institutions than Henley Royal Regatta. Founded in 1839 it is an established part of the English "season," that parade of sporting and social events with which the English summer is punctuated--Ascot, Wimbledon,...

The Clinton legacy in Ireland.(Bill Clinton and the peace process)
March 22, 2001... As President Bill Clinton prepared to make his third and final visit to Ireland last December, one question engaged both his critics and his admirers in a fierce debate. Why exactly was he coming back and why, on a broader scale, was Ireland so...

Bush fire on the hill: as President George W. Bush settles into the White House, Tim Ryan speaks to Irish Americans about their hopes and fears for the new regime and its policy on Ireland.
March 22, 2001... As the first US election of the new millennium is finally over and the last of the hanging chads swept away, America's 281 million-plus population finally gets used to a new face in the White House. For the majority of the 40 million...

An Irish gift.(Irish products of international reputation)
March 22, 2001... Prosperity's greatest advantage is confidence. And Ireland today is a confident place with a booming economy where new ideas and fortunes thrive and a young breed of connoisseur is looking to its own rather than abroad for excellence,...

The Jews of Dublin: though small in number, the Jewish community has been a powerful force in Ireland since the 18th century -- from famine relief to involvement in politics and the arts, the Jews have immeasurably enriched the culture of our capital city.
March 22, 2001... There have been Jews in Ireland since the 18th century and earlier. The earliest allusion is in the Annals of Innisfallen which notes: "Year 1079: five Jews came over sea with gifts to Tairdelbach and they were sent back again over the sea."...

Corporate chieftains.(Jim Quinn of Tiffany and Co.)
March 22, 2001... Jim Quinn was on phone from Hawaii. A full day of meetings with his sales staff and no time for sight-seeing loomed ahead. Yet here he was at 5am, speaking about childhood memories, his Irish heritage, sports and business, in a low-key manner...

The dance: together with language and music. Irish step dancing is irrevocably woven into the tapestry of irish culture. And, as with those two genres. Irish dance is experiencing an unprecedented surge in popularity--not least of all in limerick, where preparations are underway for the world irish dancing championships.
March 22, 2001... Alongside our landscape and traditional Irish music, one of the images most associated with Ireland is our unique step dancing tradition, which is now more popular worldwide than ever before in its 300-year history. This can partly be...

Design for living.
March 22, 2001... The Harvard Graduate School of Design is currently instigating a prestigious bursary scheme specifically for Irish students in honor of the world-famous Irish structural engineer, Peter R. Rice. Prior to this there had been no special funding...

Political women: meet the women politicians who are changing the face and influencing the future of Irish politics.
March 22, 2001... during a debate in Dail Eireann a few years ago, the Taoiseach at the time, Albert Reynolds, was on his feet attempting to clarify his Government's position on some controversy of the day. His efforts were drawing the usual heckles and...

Scarlet feather: Cathy's parents' house could have been a million miles from the rarefied world of Oaklands.(Excerpt)
March 22, 2001... It would have been lovely for Cathy if Tom could have come with her to Oaklands. Moral support and company in that kitchen, which held so many bad memories for her, and also it would have halved the work. But Tom had to go to some do with...

Queen Maeve.(Maeve Binchy)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... When Maeve Binchy announced last year that she was retiring there was consternation in the book world. How could one of the world's most successful writers hang up her pen? Binchy's quit while you're ahead philosophy seemed out of step with...

The edge.(stereotyping the Irish)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... My friend is one of those people. Back in the 1980s he had hair that made a statement. He wore nothing but black from the time he was twelve until the minute he turned thirty. He never put on weight and he never had acne. I put on weight just...