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...said. She's a WASP from Wellesley, but was into her third red wine, and some deep-in-the-bones Hibernian poetry was surfacing. "I wish Bo could see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Our Red Sox,' Still? | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...other warriors from Gonzaga would load up someone's father's car with six-packs (the Buchanans wrecked half a dozen of their dad's Oldsmobiles, until his insurance was canceled) and go marauding, like whiteboy Crips and Bloods, but armed with only their fists and a fierce Hibernian truculence. In their cars, they would slowly circle the Hot Shoppe on Connecticut Avenue, hoping for girls, settling for a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: PAT'S SCHOOL DAYS WITH THE POPE'S MARINES | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...HIBERNIAN attempt to stop Irish homosexuals from presenting themselves to their ethnic community and to the whole of New York merely exacerbates the common tendency of heterosexuals to deny the existence of homosexuality...

Author: By Godffrey S. Williams, | Title: Blarney From the Hibernians | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

...knows that sports teams must have nicknames, but selecting an appropriate one is fraught with peril. Alabama, for instance, may be proud of the Crimson Tide, but it sounds like a bloodbath or a serious algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in A Nickname? | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...Regiment. His partner was Frank Shackleton, younger brother of Sir Ernest, the South Pole explorer; Frank tried desperately to float a get-rich scheme in Mexico. Shackleton also held an honorary post in Dublin Castle, where he became a protege of Sir Arthur Vicars, fuss-budget guardian of the Hibernian sparklers. Between all-male orgies in the castle and AC-DC frolics at the maison of one Daisy Newman, the cash-strapped Englishmen cooked up a seemingly impossible scheme to spirit the gems to the Continent. There they were disassembled and recut. Another footnote: some of the stones could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blending Fantasy with Fact | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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