Word: irishness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...SINEAD O'CONNOR Faith and Courage (Atlantic). This time around, the defiant Irish singer delivers not a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving one's self, but they carry themselves lightly, as if lifted by seraphim's wings...
...both communities, the services stand as landmarks to their immigrant identity. And the city which received hordes of Irish and Italian immigrants at the turn of the century still holds its doors open to all nationalities trying to make a new start...
...Cambridge's more traditional groups can only claim enclaves, from the tiny Irish "Kerry's Corner" on Surrey Street near Dunster House to the long-entrenched Portuguese community in Inman Square. They worry their children are leaving old traditions--and their native language--behind as their culture becomes assimilated...
...Like the Irish before them, the Portuguese--fleeing natural disaster--chose to settle in East Cambridge, joining the relatives who had come decades before to work in the fishing-net factories...
...letting a simple butterfly ballot trick them into voting for Nazi-revisionist Pat Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have an undercount rate five times as great as those with modern equipment. I'm Irish. I know from grudges. My guess is that they don't get over...