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...Dark [Feb. 18], you quote Samuel Johnson: "The Irish are a fair people. They never speak well of one another." They don't act well to one another either. The Dark has been banned from Ireland, and McGahern has lost his teaching post at a Dublin school. He has, it seems, committed two unforgivable sins: not only has he written a "dirty" book; he has also (God protect us from all harm) married outside the church...
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...wasn't it a long, fond wake the widow held? After Irish Playwright Brendan Behan died of "the gargle" two years ago, Beatrice Behan, 40, told Redbook in Dublin, "I spent a few months drinking around in the pubs where they knew him." After a while, said Beatrice, "I felt his personality slipping under my skin.. I imagined that everyone loved me, and I even sang those dreary I.R.A. songs that Brendan used to sing. But then I realized I was not being natural, so I drink but little now." Still, considering the mourning after, the great gargler...
BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Shaw wrote as compulsively as he talked, and the 691 letters in this volume form a fascinating biography from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk, to the age of 41, when he was on the eve of his first big success, Candida...
...Dublin-dominated cast performs Philadelphia on Broadway, and it is uniformly excellent. Other people speak English; the Irish play it. Philadelphia is not scored for brass, timpani, or full dramatic orchestra, but it exquisitely renders the chamber music of existence...