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Conor Cruise O'Brien dies at 91; Irish author became a prominent diplomat
Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leading Irish author, politician and diplomat who rose to international prominence while leading a United Nations mission in the troubled Congo and remained an independent, often contrarian thinker amid religious strife of his...Tags: Israel, United Nations, Charles Stewart, Edmund Burke, The Washington Post
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Terrorist bullet still digs deep
Times Staff WriterON July 4, 2002, Sarah Phillips was checking in at Los Angeles International Airport for her trip home to Canada after a vacation with friends. The first flight she could get to arrive in time for a grandson's birthday was a connection through Toronto...Tags: Los Angeles, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Health, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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Paddy Casey tries his Irish luck
Special to The TimesPADDY CASEY, the second-bestselling rock act in Ireland, looks a little disappointed as he scans the sparse audience that turned up during rush hour Friday for his debut here at the Virgin Records Megastore. "You make more money busking," the singer-...Tags: Los Angeles, San Francisco, U2 (music group), Times Square, New York
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Foreign reporters try to explain race
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmericans weren't the only ones surprised by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's decisive victory in Iowa's Democratic caucuses on Thursday. Like hundreds of foreign journalists trying to make sense of an unsettled time in American political life, Nuala O'...Tags: Los Angeles Times, New Hampshire, Iowa, Germany, U.S. Department of State
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'Transit' by Bernard Share
Transit
A Novel
Bernard Share
Dalkey Archive: 138 pp. $12.95 paper
Say the modern airport is really just a series of grievances. Repetitious tasks, confusing signage, a limited option of goods and services and little reward besides the opportunity...Tags: Los Angeles, Dublin (Alameda, California), Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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Deadly Dubliners
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer(Photo: Kieran Doherty/Reuters) March 5, 2008 Do yourself a favor: If you're the sort inclined to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this month, skip the badly pulled pint of Guinness, the hordes of amateur drinkers and the warmed-over Republican ballads at...Tags: Death, Los Angeles Times, New York, Crime, Law and Justice, St. Patrick's Day
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Rock of the Irish
Winding road to the Echo
What Rodrigo y Gabriela bring to the Echo tonight — besides flamenco-flavored guitars picked with rock-star energy — is a tale of perseverance that, when digested, adds cinematic flourish to their already colorful...Tags: Los Angeles, Harvey, U2 (music group), New York, Mexico City
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Druid Theatre: A countryman's call
Special to The TimesJohn Millington Synge? Those Americans who've heard of him (and not that many have) tend to think of the early 20th century writer as a spinner of tales about coarse or quaint Irish folk who speak in a barely decipherable tongue. Garry Hynes is out to...Tags: Los Angeles, Death, Galway (Ireland), University of California, Los Angeles, New York
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Archive: Catholicism losing ground in Ireland
Times Staff WriterMAYNOOTH, Ireland — The black-and-white class portraits arrayed along the nearly deserted corridor of the seminary at St. Patrick's College here tell the tale. Year by year, the group of graduating seminary students gets smaller. Slowly, the number...Tags: Social Sciences, Social Issues, Christianity, Sexual Assault, Rome (Italy)
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Coasting in the counties
Special to The TimesSomething about the Derry Independent Hostel here made me suspect from the start that I might not fit in. Maybe it was Doris, the plump, 20ish manager clad in a camisole on a day that couldn't have been more than 70 degrees. Maybe it was the strum of a...Tags: Windsurfing, France, Documentary (genre), Los Angeles International Airport, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Pirate queen with Irish luck
Special to The TimesShe was the scourge of Spanish and English merchants. "Notorious by land and sea," her English enemies said. Queen Elizabeth I even put a price — 500 pounds — on her head. Grace O'Malley, a 16th century pirate, was feared from Ireland's...Tags: Elizabeth I, Piracy, Crime, Law and Justice, Museum Dioramas, Folklore and Mythology
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Rolling through Ireland
!["So you'll be riding the Ring of Kerry, right?" asked Mary at O'Sullivan's Rent-a-Bike in Killarney.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-04/7292825.jpg ""So you'll be riding the Ring of Kerry, right?\" asked Mary at O'Sullivan's Rent-a-Bike in Killarney.")
Special to The Times"So you'll be riding the Ring of Kerry, right?" asked Mary at O'Sullivan's Rent-a-Bike in Killarney. "No, I'm planning to go around the Beara Peninsula. Can you tell me anything about that?" I answered. "I don't know anything about the Beara. Everyone...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Los Angeles, Calendars, Days, and Months, Rivers, Vermont
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