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...teenager, Farrell contemplated a career in professional football-his father, Eamonn Farrell, played for Shamrock Rovers-but "I'd drink two liters of cider, smoke a joint and start looking at birds. Couldn't make training after that." Acting proved more of a challenge, and he went from drama school to the stage of London's Donmar Warehouse to film and television. Then one day he heard Schumacher was holding auditions in London for Tigerland. Not having read the script, Farrell-who uses swearwords as freely as most people use nouns-earned himself a callback on charm alone. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Stole The Movies | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...what's the true way to tell an Irish pub from a Gaelic wannabee? Check the head on a pint of Guinness. It should be shamrock-free. "No shamrock-that's American," Delaney says. "To me, it's more important to pour a good pint of Guinness that to put a shamrock...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Shamrock on Tap: Last Call at Boston's Irish Pubs | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...what's the true way to tell an Irish pub from a Gaelic wannabee? Check the head on a pint of Guinness. It should be shamrock-free. "No shamrock-that's American," Delaney says. "To me, it's more important to pour a good pint of Guinness that to put a shamrock...

Author: By Linda A. Yast, | Title: shamrock on tap | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...They said creative black tie, and I took it as a command," said O'Connor, who sported khaki shorts and a green shamrock bow tie. "Given the option of creative black tie, there's no excuse for a normal tuxedo. It's boring and easy...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: A Night to Remember | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

...issue in Boston, where Evacuation Day is also on the calendar. Sure, Evacuation Day marks when the English left Boston for good, but something tells me that a dutiful Irish student blessed those Tories when he discovered they had left on March 17, just in time for a shamrock-laden celebration of another British Isle...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Unpatriotic Harvard | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

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