Ireland
Zut Alors! Cracks in European Housing Market
The housing market slump in the U.S. has spread to Europe, according to this morning's Wall Street Journal. It's the same story over there as here: higher interest rates, tighter lending standards and wavering confidence.
France in the third quarter had its first quarterly home-price decline in almost a decade, and the Celtic Tiger, Ireland, saw home prices in August nearly 2 percent lower than the same month the year before. In Spain, the average home price has fallen since July.
The housing market slowdown could impact these countries' economies, much as it has in the United States.
The Greatest Film of All Time: Ophüls’ Madame de … Is Coming Back to Town
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Danielle Darrieux in The Earrings of Madame de ....
When people have asked me to name the greatest film of all time—in my humble opinion, of cours read more »
Found in Translation: Brian Friel’s Irish Soul
Joan Marcus
Chandler Williams (Lieutenant Yolland) and Susan Lynch (Maire) in Brian Friel
It’s a pity that Brian Friel’s wonderful Translations at the Biltmore Theatre is talked read more »
McCain Likes Ted Kennedy, Irish Drinking Jokes
John McCain was back in town yesterday for a Irish-American event at the New York Yacht Club. Niall Stanage has the details:
Senator John McCain stored up some ethnic backing for a possible 2008 presidential bid last night, stressing his support for immigration reform - and recounting a story about a pair of drunken Irish twins that some of us have heard before.In his remarks, McCain said that America's greatness is a product of the "blood and vitality that is poured into this nation by generation after generation" of immigrants. He also asserted that "we will win this fight" to change the immigration laws.
In a curious sideswipe, the Arizona senator contrasted the openness of the American tradition with France, "where you shovel off the Muslim youth to ghettos and every once in a while they come out and burn a few thousand cars."
The rest is after the jump. read more »
Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant: Best Bloody Play I Ever Saw
Monique Carboni
Blood on the stage: The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
It’s great news that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore is to transfer to Bro read more »
Joan Plowright Is Mrs. Palfrey In May-December Buddy Drama
Gather Round, Folks! Get Your Reparations!
They closed lower Broadway to traffic on Oct. read more »
Magdalene Survivors Speak-British Doc Inspired Mullan's Film
Steve Humphries' Sex in a Cold Climate , a documentary denouncing the Magdalene Asylums, which were read more »
Blowing Smoke At Bar Owners
The first thing you should know about Ciaran Staunton is that he doesn't smoke. read more »
A Little Italy Social Club Caters to a New Mob
The social clubs of Little Italy, where mobsters reputedly did business at the pool table or over a read more »
Navigating Friendship's Slippery Slope
The main reason I left my job and my family last week-notpermanently, only for about five days-and h read more »
Mum, On Almost Everything; Invest Now in a Fendi Bag
My mum was born in northern Ireland in 1918 (the year that British women over 30 got the vote) with read more »
A Song for Ireland From Bard of Armagh
A little more than a century ago, William Butler Years, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory and other writ read more »
Arguably Authentic Bellew Showcases Irish Cuisine
You never hear people say, "Let's have Irish food tonight" the way they might say, "Let's have Itali read more »
Brutal Candor, the Sequel: McCourt's Irish, Stateside
'Tis: A Memoir , by Frank McCourt. read more »
Moving So Fast and Going Nowhere
The beautiful for spacious skies are not hanging over Newark Airport.I'm sure that the little rusted read more »
Waving or Drowning In the Irish New Wave?
Well, now. They're back! read more »
Did Vallone Praise Real I.R.A.'s Front in an April Speech?
A militant group that is being tied to the worst atrocity in Northern Ireland's history received an read more »
City's Irish Exiles Aren't Thrilled
A ceramic portrait of Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands hangs in the upstairs window of Hugh O'Lunney read more »
How to Murder Your Mother the Old-Fashioned Way
I must offer a minority opinion about Martin McDonagh's raved-over The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and read more »
It Sure Beats Riverdance: McDonagh Comes to Broadway
As Oscar Wilde lives and breathes, where would English drama be without the Irish? read more »
