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naming names
Flanked by row upon row of flagpoles set five feet apart, if we stretch out our arms, we can touch …Continue reading »
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words & music for st. patrick’s day every day
I’m a bit ambivalent about St. Patrick’s Day. What is it about March 17th that renders so many people Irish …Continue reading »
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SB 1070 & the music of what happens
It was just three years ago. I was sitting in my office, only half-enjoying a visit from a former student …Continue reading »
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that’ll be the day when you make me cry, Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt can’t sing anymore. Linda Ronstadt. Can’t. Sing. Anymore. In an interview with AARP magazine she says: No one …Continue reading »
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back to Anahorish ~ Seamus Heaney’s ‘first hill in the world’
Our poet, Seamus Heaney, will be buried in Bellaghy tomorrow evening, his body brought home from Dublin to rest next to …Continue reading »
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a walk in other people’s shoes, other people’s words
Every afternoon at 3 0′clock, for the first twenty-five years of my American life, I sat down on my couch …Continue reading »
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“madiba magic” ~ once in a lifetime
Back in June, I imagine Seamus Heaney was vexed over the thought of a world without Mandela. I think we all were. I remember my husband and I talking about his charisma, the "Madiba magic" that changed...
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do the right thing this time, Governor Brewer.
A version of this article also appears at IrishCentral.com: Arizona Governor Could Show us That Lessons of History do not Apply …Continue reading →
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SB 1070 & the music of what happens
It was just three years ago. I was sitting in my office, only half-enjoying a visit from a former student …Continue reading →
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Hope Ripples in Ireland.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion …Continue reading →
View ArticleAmerica – a no-go area.
In his first ten days in office, the President of the United States has shown us that the lessons of …Continue reading →
View ArticleLinda Ronstadt: The Sound of her Voice
I never thought I would hear Linda Ronstadt sing again, but there she is on my television screen, singing a …Continue reading →
View ArticleWhat would Dr. King do?
‘Only when it’s dark enough can you see the stars’ On the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in 2010, more …Continue reading →
View ArticleDear Nelson Mandela
I believe in Nelson Mandela’s vision. I believe in a vision shared by Gandhi and King and Abraham Lincoln. I believe in a vision of equality, justice, freedom and multi-racial democracy, built on the...
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