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The write stuff
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The write stuff
Celebrated NYPD detective and author, Ed Conlon, drew 104 years of family service in the Long Blue Line to a close two weeks ago with his retiremen...
Daly shows mastery in 'Class'
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Daly shows mastery in 'Class'
Master Class by Terrence McNally • Starring Tyne Daly • Directed by Stephen Wadsworth • Manhattan Theatre Club, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre • Throug...
Gleeson relishes cop role in 'The Guard'
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Gleeson relishes cop role in 'The Guard'
Brendan Gleeson says the chance to play Irish Police Sergeant Gerry Boyle in the new dark comedy "The Guard" was simply too irresistible to pass up...
Leo Moran,  lead guitarist, The Saw Doctors
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Leo Moran, lead guitarist, The Saw Doctors
1. So give us a thumbnail sketch: where were you born and raised? Do you come from a musical family? I was born and reared in Boston, a place you a...
Poet Terence Winch pours a potent 'fifth'
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Poet Terence Winch pours a potent 'fifth'
Poetry is a lie that tells the truth. No matter how autobiographical it may seem, no matter how enriched it is by actual people or incidents, verse...
War, in Hynes' sight
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War, in Hynes' sight
Irish theater director Garry Hynes says she has been looking forward to bringing her critically acclaimed production of Sean O'Casey's infrequently...
One man's view of the rise (and demise) of the Celtic Tiger
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One man's view of the rise (and demise) of the Celtic Tiger
The Parting Glass By Dermot Bolger • With Ray Yeates • Directed by Mark O'Brien • at the Barrow Street Theatre • Through July 31, 2011 Boiled down ...
Deferential Duff started worldwide movement
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Deferential Duff started worldwide movement
Frank Duff joined the civil service in Dublin in 1908, and his most interesting work in his early career there was on the land acts: "a revolution,...
O Grada and Donnelly dazzle in house concert
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O Grada and Donnelly dazzle in house concert
Every so often, I encounter a newspaper review so stupefyingly stupid that I wonder if the writer and his or her editor forgot their meds at the sa...
Remembering my first job in New York
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Remembering my first job in New York
I remember when I arrived in New York for the first time. I had my J1 visa in my passport, $1000 in my pocket and my head was full of my American d...
Irish pols choose their inspirations
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Irish pols choose their inspirations
The Roscommon-born Fr. Michael O'Flanagan is one of the great mavericks in Irish political history. A vice-president of Sinn Féin during the tumult...
Make a date to see ‘Tryst’
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Make a date to see ‘Tryst’
Tryst By Karoline Leach • Director: Joe Brancato • Irish Repertory Theatre • Through August 2, 2011) The Irish Repertory Theatre, confronted with a...

 

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