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...Fayne’s primary narrative is interspersed with letters depicting another timeline, as Charlotte’s Irish-American mother marries Lord Henry and becomes pregnant, before losing several babies....
...Paul Walsh, who Menezes succeeded as chief executive in 2013, and who had worked with him since Diageo’s inception, described him as a man who combined intellect and human empathy....
...Missing Person, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills (Allen Lane)An Irish family memoir of unmarried motherhood through the generations explores the secrets families keep and the violence carried out...
...Nobody, bar the legendary RTÉ reporter, Tommie Gorman, was, closer to the Irish commissioners. He wined, dined and lunched ferociously....
...“We owe the FT’s opposition to the Iraq war almost entirely to his intellect and moral courage,” says Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator....
...Seamus Deane was the driving intellect.”...
...The optimism of their will overcomes the pessimism of their intellect. Originality is their currency and constant adaptation their tool....
...our work means, what worth it holds as the world seemingly implodes, in her third novel Sally Rooney asks similar questions about her own work, placing herself — or someone like her, a young, successful Irish...
...I didn’t know my body could do that; I didn’t know my intellect could stretch to the areas that Beckett had taken me to....
...A childhood friend says: “He works like a dog but also has a forensic intellect, which makes him a really interesting adversary for a certain prime minister.” 5....
...“Colm is seen by colleagues and competitors alike as having a powerful intellect and fierce competitive streak....
...Forty years after the repeal of the Corn Laws, the failure of Irish Home Rule nearly broke the Liberals....
...Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, is admired in legal circles for his approachable manner and razor-sharp intellect....
...“I mean, the Irish did this out of the Kennedy family for years.”...
...Drive and intellect took her to Cambridge and beyond....
...His father was Irish by background and, although a literary man, taught engineering. His mother, also distinctly literary, was a schoolteacher....
...Knighted in 1996 and ennobled a year later when he stood down in favour of David Trimble, he was a reactionary heavily influenced by Enoch Powell, the former Conservative minister whose intellect and parliamentary...
...They have two other things in common: they are both the sons of immigrants, Irish ones....
...Irish independence are appearing thick and fast....
...Anderson’s librettist is Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, whose stage adaptation of Oedipus the King was produced by the National Theatre in 2008....
...It also brought hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants to Scotland, both Catholic and Protestant....
...Kennedy knew better than to hide his wiry Irish mop beneath a titfer. It was the crest, the crown, the brand....
...The combination of his intellect and his courage made him a formidable player”. Once outside the IMF, Mr Mussa’s pointed commentary was given freer rein....
...A quiet, cerebral midwesterner, one of eight children in an Irish Catholic family from Ohio, he is known for devotion to work and ability to analyse accounts, as well as being a skilled negotiator....
...Country Girl , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£20 The Irish author of The Country Girls looks back on a spectacular life, from her childhood in Tuamgraney, County Clare; her turbulent marriage to Ernest Gébler...
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