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Leaping wizards of Oz; Australians now occupy the top jobs at the Royal Ballet. Luke Jennings looks at the rise of 'the Kangaroo Mafia'.
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Byline: LUKE JENNINGS
"I'VE heard I'm a tough director," says Ross Stretton, the Royal Ballet's new boss. "But the fact is I like people with their own opinions.
I'll challenge them; they'll challenge me." Fighting talk - to brace himself, perhaps, for the task ahead. The former Australian Ballet director takes over a company which, earlier this year, saw the death of its founder, Dame Ninette de Valois, and the retirement of its most celebrated son, Sir Anthony Dowell.
Although he has announced an essentially conservative programme of ballets for ...
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The Heroic Outlaw in Irish Folklore and Popular Literature.
Magazine article from: Folklore
; ...contemplating issues of morality and justice. Thomas Crofton Croker, the Anglo-Irish antiquarian and early collector...and dwelt on with a surprising fondness" (Croker 1985, 55). Croker also noted that a chapbook about Irish outlaws...
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Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...intellectual origins in the earlier nineteenth century, the tone is sometimes less certain. Thomas Crofton Croker is confused with the Tory sage John Wilson Croker. Bentley misunderstands Newman's controversial Tract 90 which involved less an attempt...
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Conquering England: Roy Foster introduces a new exhibition on the Irish in London in the 19th and early 20th centuries, opening at the National Portrait Gallery on March 9th.(Frontline)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...published in 1835, includes Francis Mahony and Thomas Crofton Croker with Carlyle and Thackeray. Maclise himself was an...footsteps of earlier poets and novelists, notably Thomas Moore, who had been joined by Samuel Lover and Sydney...
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Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Magazine article from: Marvels & Tales
; ...sure to spark new or renewed interest in Norske huldreeventyr. Inspired by the Grimms' German translation of Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), Asbjornsen crafted his own work from composites...
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News: Archaeologist's dig reveals solution to ancient riddle of lost Roman town Experts believe that the site Brian and Edna Philp have spent a lifetime uncovering is Noviomagus, says Adam Lusher
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...researchers `located' it all over the South East and excitement about the mystery peaked in the 19th century when Thomas Crofton Croker told the Society of Antiquaries of London that a tomb he had found at Keston, Kent, was part of a temple in Noviomagus...
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National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England
Magazine article from: Western Folklore
; ...Through four case studies of translated Mrchen collections-Edgar Taylor's German Popular Stories (1823), Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), Edward Lane's Arabian Nights (1839-1841...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1675; Jean-Francois Lesueur, composer, 1763; Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, general and statesman, 1770; Thomas Crofton Croker, folklorist, 1798; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, social reformer, 1809; Jean-Baptiste Faure, baritone, 1830...
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OBITUARIES
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis)
; Edith Cox Sheila Croker Janey Gildea Nancy Hensley...Cox died Aug. 7 at the Crofton Convalescent Center...Whitsett, N.C. Sheila Croker Sheila Croker, 49...by her husband, Ron Croker; a daughter, Melissa...Stevenson; one brother, Thomas G. Lee Jr. of Sherwood...
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