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- Martin McGuinness makes parting gift of poetry to Ian Paisley - Times Online
Times OnlineMartin McGuinness makes parting gift of poetry to Ian PaisleyTimes Online, UK - 2 hours ago“My gift to Ian Paisley was a poem I wrote some time ago,†the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA and keen angler told dumbfounded reporters ...
- O'Shaughnessy: Prisoners' last words haunt writer (New York Daily News)
James McSherry vaguely remembers his stepgrandfather pushing him on the swings in the playground 40 years ago. That was his image of the old man, Michael O'Rourke, who had come from County Cork to the Bronx after the Irish warred with the British and then with each other in the 1920s.
- Hello, summer! Festival lineup offers tons of food, fun - Beacon News
Ready or not, summer is upon us with its many music, food and cultural fests and fairs. The Southland abounds with weekend activities, so clear the calendar, rally the family and be sure to go to these events hungry. • Sept. 7 - The free family fun ...
- A life in writing: Tobias Wolff (Guardian Unlimited)
Tobias Wolff: 'I hate cruelty. I hate a bully ... There's something in my president, that hectoring way, that reminds me of my stepfather'
- Entertainment week of July 18-24 - Orange Leader
Another fabulous weekend of live music and fun events for the whole family are in store, so make plans and be safe. Rodeo Area rodeo fans get your boots on as the annual Orange County Sheriff’s Posse Rodeo returns at 8 p.m., today and Saturday. A ...
- KARACHI: Zay Khay Sheen’s literary contribution discussed - DAWN Group
KARACHI: Zahida Khatoon Sherwani was a remarkable woman about whom very few people know today. Much ahead of her times in thought and wisdom, this poetess has been brought back to life in the literary circles by Fatima Hasan, a poet and short story ...
- Suffolk punch at Latitude Fest - The Sun
Suffolk punch at Latitude FestThe Sun, UK - 11 hours ago... on a show-stealing conga with hundreds of revellers. With literature, poetry, dance and multi-coloured sheep, Latitude is a total joy for ALL the family.
- Thank heaven for friends - Stayner Sun
Thank heaven for friendsStayner Sun, Canada - 3 hours agoThe lack of aggression, the emphasis on living in the “nowâ€, the importance it places on poetry and art, these all seem important to me. ...
- Musical brainstorming pays off at Jazzfest - Ottawa Citizen
The idea to put a group of jazz musicians together for a week or so to see what they come up with in the way of new compositions first gained popularity in New York's so-called loft scene in the early 1970s. Some ground-breaking avant-garde jazz by ...
- Ray Beauchemin's Letters from Abu Dhabi: Why Dubai may covet Cirque -- location, location, diversification (Market Watch)
If the rumor is true, Dubai wants to own outright the pride of Quebec, Cirque do Soleil. Ray Beauchemin tells why it makes more sense than it might initially appear to.
- Tribute paid to rail death teenager - Biggleswade Chronicle
Tributes have been paid to a man who was killed after being hit by a train at Sandy railway station on Saturday. British Transport Police received a report at 6.31pm that a man, who was later confirmed as 19-year-old Andrew Groves from Shillington ...
- South Africa: That Attack On Fellow Africans in South Africa - AllAfrica.com
South Africa: That Attack On Fellow Africans in South AfricaAllAfrica.com, Washington - 42 minutes agoRemember, these are the same people the likes of Leopold Sedar Senghor, the great poet stuck his neck out to fight their wars through his poetry. ...
- Around Town: YWCA Hall of fame honors inductees - Canton Repository (subscription)
Around Town: YWCA Hall of fame honors inducteesCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 1 hour agoShe is past president of Stark County Retired Teachers and is president of Ohio Poetry Day and the local unit of American Association of University Women. ...
- Catherine Sampson's top 10 books on Beijing - Guardian Unlimited
Catherine Sampson has lived in China for more than 15 years. Her fourth crime novel, The Slaughter Pavilion, is set in Beijing and features private detective Song Ren. It will be published in hardback by Macmillan on September 5. Her third novel, The ...
- Artist sees beauty in steel towns (The Daily News)
Next time you're driving across the Clairton-Glassport Bridge, look out the window and evaluate what you see. Is it a plain old coal stockpile for the mill with some tread marks from heavy machinery in the middle, or do you see something else?
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