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irishmemory.blogspot.com | ||
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746books.com
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| | | | | It seems like just about everyone claims to have Irish Heritage these days, but exactly who is and who isn't? When even Barack Obama (or should that be O'Bama??) is talking about his Irish roots, how can we tell a proper Irishman or woman from a wannabe? Hollywood is full of the Irish - you... | |
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www.irishtimes.com
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| | | | | President leads tributes to Pogues singer-songwriter remembered as 'one of greatest lyricists' | |
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notoneoffbritishisms.com
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| | | | | For the purposes of this blog, "British" refers to the British Isles, meaning not only the United Kingdom but Ireland as well. I mention that now because "feck" is of Irish origin, emerging in the nineteenth century as a verb meaning "steal." From Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (1916): "They had... | |
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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | ||
