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Connolly heaved his biggest rock at retiring coach Jaakko Mikkola, "a Finn whom Harvard picked from a ditch-digging job after World War I." Mikkola, of course, coached the 1920 and 1924 Finnish Olympic teams, as a quick check at the Athletic Association would have revealed...
...children of the rainbow are 20-year-old Ches Macnamara, a saddler's son, and his friend Finn Dillon, whose studded belt marks him as "Prince of Cloone," the tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest...
Young Fingertips. Finding reason enough for their lives in the ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held...
...young blood rises, Ches and Finn do their share of "kissin' and bleedin' like the Cloonies." When the light is doused on a picnicking foray into a sea cave, Ches feels the touch of a woman's hand. "The fingertips of my right hand then encountered the woman's breast. The touch was fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches...
...James Joyce? Finn's taste of love is more bitter. He worships Shoon Lawlee, a gingery colleen with almond-shaped eyes. She spurns him, and flounces off to the big world, only to come home pregnant and die. Finn buries the sting of it in underground work for a united Ireland. In the end he is hanged, and Ches gets his princely belt, only to see Cloone razed by fire...