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Repression, as everyone knows, makes for bad sex. But it does wonders for romance, obliging the yearning heart to make wondrous imaginative leaps mostly unduplicatable when you're tangled in the reality of rumpled sheets. It follows, therefore, that Ireland in the 1950s, a place where condoms were illegal and priests braying the glories of continence were everywhere, was probably the world capital of romance...
Before the potato came to Ireland, the Irishate clover salad to supplement their traditionaldiet of meat, butter, milk and oatmeal, withvitamin C. In the 17th century the conqueringEnglish, not yet aware that everyone should eatfive serving of fruit and veggies a day, scornedwhat they saw as this uncultured Irish cuisine.the Irish promptly decided to adopt the clover asa symbol of ethnic pride...
Hollywood makes two kinds of Ireland movies--the working class urban fantasy and the fey rural fantasy. "Circle of Friends," the latest Irish presence in American theaters, divides its time between Dublin and the countryside, but the movie could be set in Poughkeepsie as far as the plot is concerned; in this formulaic love-story, the setting doesn't intrude for a moment on the predicatable progress of the romance...
...Irish setting, however, which could have redeemed the trite storyline, is sorely underused. A few external shots of Trinity Colleges and a model Irish village are the only things that locate us in Ireland. In many ways the protagonists are American teenagers, going to see On the Waterfront and listening to Buddy Holly impersonators. Only the characters' naivete could prevent their being transposed to the United States...
...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...