World of Hibernia articles from September 2001

World of Hibernia archives from September 2001

Editor's page.
September 22, 2001... Well, well, well. Shall we call it tales of the unexpected? Or how about the mouse that roared? I am writing, of course, about the Irish people's decision to reject the NICE Treaty. Despite the urgings of the great and the good to vote yes, the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2001... Thank you so much for the continued publication of what really must be one of the best magazines in the world! We subscribe to various magazines, fewer now than we used to as we've culled the assortment to The New Yorker, The Smithsonian,...

What's hot. (crossroads).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... For the last word in luxury, look no further than FARMLEIGH HOUSE. This stately pile, built in 1881, was formerly home to the illustrious Guinness family. The lavish accommodation includes twenty bedrooms, fourteen bathrooms, six sumptuous...

Diving in down. (Time Out).(Norsemaid Sea Enterprises Ltd. offers dives in channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland is an undisputed cornucopia of natural beauty. The many islands in this stretch of sea boast an abundance of wildlife and rugged coastlines endowed with a wild, natural beauty. To enjoy the...

Paddy Bogside. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Paddy Doherty: Paddy Bogside (Mercier Press, 9.99 [pounds sterling]) Paddy Doherty, a native of Derry City in Northern Ireland and Chief Executive of the Inner City Trust (set up to revitalize the city) has earned himself the moniker of...

High Island. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Jenny White Marshall and Grellan D. Rourke High Island (Town House, 25 [pounds sterling]) Ard Oilean or, as it is known in English, High Island, is a small uninhabited island 3km off the North Connemara coast, which most locals and...

The Shelbourne. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Elizabeth Bowen: The Shelbourne (Vintage, Sterling 6.99 [pounds sterling]) Among the many immediately identifiable aspects of Irish life incontestably claiming the privileged status of national institution is Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel. Not...

Mystic River. (The Critical Reader).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Denis Lehane: Mystic River (William Morrow, $25) Spellbinding, heartbreaking, and gripping are just some of the words being used to describe Mystic River, the latest effort of first-generation Irish-American author Dennis Lehane. Yet...

My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte: Traditional Songs about Napoleon. (The CD Player).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Franke Harte and Donal Lunny My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte: Traditional Songs about Napoleon (Hummingbird Records) In Japan, there is an honorific title called Living National Treasure. It's self explanatory, and if we had it in Ireland,...

Regeneration (Parlophone). (The CD Player).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Divine Comedy: Regeneration (Parlophone) I'd be lying if I said I was a fan of Divine Comedy, the lynchpin of which is the man himself, Neil Hannon. Hannon had always struck me as something of a pretender, a would-be Scott Walker perhaps,...

The Winds Begin to Sing. (The CD Player).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Karan Casey: The Winds Begin to Sing (Shanachie) Anybody who has the remotest interest in traditional Irish music will be familiar with the group Solas. This group was one of the main driving forces behind the promotion of traditional Irish...

From Connecticut to Cork: the jury's still out on whether David Monagan and his wife did the right thing in uprooting their family from their tranquil life in the hills of Connecticut. But Cork, that city of charmers and chancers, has captured their imagination and, for the time being, they are staying in their Victorian home beside the Lee. (Moving People).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Nearly a year has passed since I first yanked my family out of a tranquil existence in the Connecticut hills for a new life in Ireland. Summer has returned as I look out over the jumbled warrens of Cork City, with its cathedral steeples that...

Diary. (crossroads).
September 22, 2001... OPERA THEATRE COMPANY (September 15-22) Erismena OTC presents the Venetian 17th century comedy by Cavalli in a recently discovered 17th century English translation. This is a rare masterpiece with beautiful airs, rich instrumental...

Theater of life: the distinctive style of Graham Knuttel's work has captivated art lovers and film stars alike, but the artist himself shuns the limelight, preferring instead to work quietly in his home town of Dublin.(profile)
September 22, 2001... Graham Knuttel's paintings conjure up a very distinctive world, and a clearly defined one. He draws and paints with crisp precision, using bold colours delineated with thick black outlines. Even if his subject is just a simple still life, like...

A star is born: pop princess. Movie star. Face of L'Oreal, and still just 18 years old. Samantha Mumba takes the world by storm.(Cover Story)(Interview)
September 22, 2001... It is an impressive if modest entrance--Samantha Mumba walks through the doors of a northside Dublin hotel, dressed down but still exuding the star quality a number of wannabe pop stars would sign away their copyright for. From northside Dublin...

Waterworld.(Ireland's bogs)
September 22, 2001... We have no pairies To slice big sun at evening-- Everywhere The eye concedes to Enroaching horizon, Is wooed into the eyclop's eye Of a tarn. On unfenced country Is bog the keeps crusting Between the...

Crescendo.(history of the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland)
September 22, 2001... The received wisdom is that things have speeded up immeasurably over the last century. That we live our lives at a faster pace, cramming more and more into every day, that technology advances in ever-accelerating generations. Does that mean we...

A woman of substance: Marianne Elliott.
September 22, 2001... Professor Marianne Elliott is a modest woman. Despite being a prime mover in Irish studies in the UK, an influential force in the Irish peace process and a prominent historian of her generation, she is not given to boasting. Professor of...

Dreams like these.(Colorado Irish)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Next time you're in central Denver, Colorado, you might take a stroll around the city, and admire the magnificent facade of the 81-year-old former synagogue located at 16th Avenue and Gaylord Street. If you're Irish, though, what is going on...

Oasis.(Botanic Gardens (Dublin, Ireland))
September 22, 2001... "Our Botanic Establishment is the brightest jewel I am proud to say in Dublin Socyty's cap, admired by all who have visited it" Dr. Walter Wade 3 May 1819 Conceived as a national institution to serve the scientific and agricultural...

Horses for courses: an exclusive excerpt from that was the way of it, by P.J. Devlin, a beautifully crafted memoir of growing up in Donegal in the early years of the 20th century.(biographical addendum)(Excerpt)
September 22, 2001... At home, politics and talks about talks were now taking second place to a far more interesting happening right on our doorstep. Pat the Tailor, a neighbor of ours, had acquired a racehorse. It wasn't a racehorse really, but it looked like...

The craft revolution.(National Craft Gallery)
September 22, 2001... Irish craft has developed enormously from the age of Aran sweaters and Tara brooches. At the start of the 21st century the Irish craft industry reflects the development of Ireland as a modern and self-confident society, retaining the best of...

The radio years.
September 22, 2001... Radio is a gentle medium, a reflective medium, and people who listen to it regard it as a friend," observes sociologist and Ireland's former Arts Minister Michael D. Higgins, TD, assessing the role and influence of Irish radio since the state...

A day on the dart: travel, if you dare with Gargler Keogh, one of the central characters from Pete St. John's best selling book "Jaysus Wept." As he enjoys out along the stunning Dublin/Wicklow coastline.
September 22, 2001... In the almost empty station house bar, time stood still as Kevin Keogh drank his heart starter with early morning relish. A quick whiskey and a slow cider chaser. God bless it! "Uisce beata, the water of life--a way of life. Well, his life...

The last Armada: Kinsale 1601.
September 22, 2001... Under tempestuous clouds of a wind-driven autumn sky, the first of a fleet of 26 Spanish ships bearing 3,500 soldiers entered the deep sheltered port of Kinsale on September 22, 1601 (old style)--or October 2 if the new calendar introduced by...

Let me tell you a story: innovative irreverent irresistible: comic storyteller Tommy Tiernan weaves a web of wry observation and devastating wit that leaves his audiences helpless with laughter. It is, after all, the way he tells 'em.
September 22, 2001... Helpless laughter. It's the dominant sound at Manhattan's Cap 21 Theater while Tommy Tiernan is on stage. Clad simply in a black T-shirt with matching leather trousers, the funny man from Galway is making his US solo debut for TKF Productions,...

What lies beneath: the euphoria that surrounded the discovery five years ago of the Corrib Field, an undersea reserve of natural gas, has been tempered by local concerns about the potential effects of progress on the outstanding natural beauty of this region of County Mayo.
September 22, 2001... IN February this year, An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern made a gesture meant to address one of the worst disparities in modern Ireland--the division of wealth between urban and rural areas--by appointing a Minister for Rural Development. He chose Dail...

The search for Irish roots.(genealogical research, Ireland)
September 22, 2001... American presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, leading figures in the world of entertainment such as Patrick Dully of "Dallas" fame, and former Monty Python Michael Palin, have all traveled to Ireland in search of their Irish...

The Irish-American presidents.(Irish ancestry of American presidents)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... A favorite Irish pastime is spotting Presidents of the United States of America who have roots in the "Auld Sod." These Irish-American chief executives of the great republic are rightly seen as a barometer of the growing success and rising...

Lords of Larchill.(Ferme Ornee gardens in Ireland)
September 22, 2001... Ten years ago, Michael de Las Casas was a restaurateur in Covent Garden, London, and his wife Louisa worked in the fashion industry. They had had enough of their hectic London lifestyle and made the decision to sell up and move to Ireland,...

Kilkenny.(historic sites and people)
September 22, 2001... How sweet it is to roam by the sunny Sair stream, And hear the doves coo 'neath the morning sunbeam, Where the thrush and the robin their sweet notes entwine On the banks of the Suir that flows down by Mooncoin THE ROSE OF...

Life savers: farmers and fishermen, gardai and undertakers, nurses and students all busy with the minutiae of life in modern Ireland. But what sets 800 of these people is how they choose to spend their free time. These are the life savers--the men and women of the 39 Irish lifeboat stations who routinely risk their lives whenever a trawler or daredevil windsurfer is in distress in Irish waters.(Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
September 22, 2001... From Galway city to Newcastle, County Down, from bustling Rosslare to remote Castletownbere, the rugged coast of Ireland is ringed by a remarkable circle of goodwill and self-sacrifice whose story sings still with the old Irish values that...

Fall delights: tempting treats from the world-famous kitchen at Ballymaloe House in County Cork.(irish recipes)
September 22, 2001... Ballymaloe Cheese Fondue There are plenty of records that refer to cheesemaking in Ireland, from the earliest times to the late 17th century, at which point cheese production declined until the art of making it was forgotten--nobody knows...

Nearly in Africa.(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... "All of the children in Africa believe in Jesus," said Mary to her niece. "All of them?" asked the child. "Well, nearly all of them. There are some countries in Africa where they do not allow people to believe in Jesus." "Why?"...

An ideal life.(short story author Paul Grimes)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Paul Grimes, who won this year's short story prize at Listowel Writers' Week 2001 with his deceptively simple short story, "Nearly in Africa," has led an eventful life. Some people might feel that he's messed about, acknowledges...

The edge.(current state of Shame and Guilt)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... You might remember Paul Reubens? He used to be the children's entertainer Pee Wee Herman? Any bells ringing? What happened to that guy? Pee Wee's playhouse was the biggest thing in children's television since the invention of sticky-back...