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The essential translations.(Translation in a Postcolonial Context)(Book Review)
Irish Literary Supplement
; MARIA TYMOCZKO Translation in a Postcolonial Context St. Jerome, 2000 TRANSLATION IN A POSTCOLONIAL Context by Maria Tymoczko has been listed by Choice as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles for the year 2000. It has also been awarded the Michael I. Durkan Prize for the best book published in
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Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach).(Review)
Medium Aevum
; Oidhead Chloinne hUisneach (The Violent Death of the Children of Uisneach), ed. and trans. Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Irish Texts Society 56 (London: Irish Texts Society, 1993). 219 pp. ISBN 1-870-16656-6. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. The story of Deirdre is one of the best known of all Irish tales, in
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Festa's Barber program a feast for ears.(D)(Arts & Entertainment)(Music)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Lisa Rauschart Festa della Voce, a Washington-based professional vocal ensemble, long has been known for its ambitious programming. Wednesday night's concert at Riverside Church in Southwest proved no exception. Alternatively passionately involved and quietly intense, the group presented a
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Phyllis Bryn-Julson and James Tocco
The Washington Post
; Samuel Barber's "Hermit Songs," based on early anonymous Irish texts (presumably by Irish monks), range from expressions of deep piety to carnal delight. They were the high point of an all-Barber recital of songs and piano music presented by soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson and pianist James Tocco at
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(book review)
Medium Aevum
; Jacqueline Borsje, From Chaos to Enemy: Encounters with Monsters in Early Irish Texts. An Investigation Related to the Process of Christianization and the Concept of Evil, Instrumenta Patristica 29 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996). x + 430 pp. ISBN 2-503-50509-0. B. Fr. 2500.00. This book has all the
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22 million Irish texts ring in the New Year.(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
; A RECORD 22 million text messages were sent on New Year's Eve, new estimates have revealed. O2, which has a 40 per cent share of the market, said its users alone sent nine million messages up to midnight on December 31. Figures from the country's largest mobile operator Vodafone will not be
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"Stepmother Sagas".
Scandinavian Studies
; An Irish Analogue for Hjalmpers saga ok Olvers The vexed question of Irish influence upon medieval Icelandic literature has suffered over the years from being too enthusiastically answered. The following article is not intended as yet another answer, but it is hoped that the evidence it puts
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Folklore Studies at the Celtic Dawn: The Role of Alfred Nutt as Publisher and Scholar.
Folklore
; At the end of the last century Alfred Trubner Nutt, distinguished folklorist and celticist, was president of the Folklore Society. On the occasion of his untimely death by drowning in 1910, Jessie Weston published an appreciation in the Folklore Society's journal which contained a succinct
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`Brjans saga'.(historicity of Icelandic sagas discussed)
Medium Aevum
; ... had been in the conflict, and they relay news of Clontarf (ch. 158). The narrative after ... two named Huginn and Muninn to bring him news from all the world. (38) The employment ... characters he had introduced earlier to transmit news of the battle. Those demonstrably Scandinavian ...
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BOOKMAKING
The Boston Globe
; Robert Taylor is the retired chief book critic of the Globe. Boston's Compost Magazine has just published its most ambitious number yet, featuring among other items a new play by and interview with three-time Obie-winner Ed Bullins and, unexpectedly, the reproduction of a handwritten poem by Emily
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