The Cranberries("卡百利"乐队, 也有译作"小红莓"乐队)是一个来自爱尔兰(爱尔兰是以英语为主要语言的欧洲音乐重镇)的另类知名摇滚乐队组合.可以算是20世纪90年代初在英国另类流行圈里较为成功的一支乐队.与U2、Sinead O'Connor、Enya等一样,都是带领爱尔兰音乐走向世界的重要力量.
The Cranberries受到人们喜爱与女主音Dolores是分不开的. 在卡百利乐队成立以前, 三个主要成员Noel, Mike和Fergal都是在一个名叫"The Cranberry Saw Us"的乐队中干了大约半年. 后来, 这个乐队的主唱Nial因为个人的原因, 决定退出, 为了不影响乐队的正常发展, 他把他的一个好朋友推荐给了乐队, 这个人后来成了卡百利乐队最重要的人物, 她就是Dolores.Dolores(多丽丝), 全名为Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan(多丽丝•玛丽•艾琳•奥里奥丹), 在嫁给巡回演出经纪人Don Burton后, 改名为Dolores Mary O'Riordan Burton(多丽丝•玛丽•奥里奥丹•伯顿).她出身于一个天主教家庭,三岁起就开始唱歌, 因此念就了一副天使般的嗓子.十几岁的时候, 她已开始弹钢琴并且自己作曲, 另外也有了组建乐队的一些想法.于是上帝的安排, 使Dolores与这帮急于找到一个新搭档的家伙走到了一起. 她一流的演唱水平很快就得到了另外三人的认同. 高亢有力的嗓音及其独特的爱尔兰花腔可以说是乐队的招牌.她独特的咽音发声, 更是受到后来的一些女歌手相继的模仿比如王菲.为了有个新的开始, 他(她)们一起组建了新的乐队, 取名就叫The Cranberries, 时间是在1990年5月.
乐队起初在英国的影响不大.但是单曲《Linger》在美国成功地成为1993年热门歌曲,这使乐队在英国也取得巨大成功.1993年,The Cranberries的首张专辑《Everybody Else Is Doing This,So Why Can’t We?》发行,至今销量已超过700万张,在中国也有双白金销量.其中的单曲《Dreams》也曾被上文提到的王菲翻唱成《梦中人》.
本场演唱会99'在巴黎Palais Omnisport Arena举行,一开始便唱出《Promise》,使得全场气氛一点即燃，接下来带出多首热门歌曲，如《Animal Instinct》、《Ode To My Family》、《Linger》等,被喻为四大经典摇滚音乐会.
乐队的成员(四人)
主唱: Dolores (德洛丽丝)
全名: Dolores Mary O’Riordan Burton(德洛丽丝·玛丽·奥里奥丹·伯顿)
出日: 1971年9月6日.
家乡: 爱尔兰,利默里克市. (Limerick, Ireland)
吉他手: Noel(诺埃尔)
全名: Noel Anthony Hogan(诺埃尔·安东尼·霍根)
出日: 1971年12月25日.
家乡: 爱尔兰,利默里克市. (Limerick, Ireland)
贝斯手:Mike(迈克)
全名: Michael Gerard Hogan(迈克尔·杰拉德·霍根)
生日: 1973年4月29日.
家乡: 爱尔兰,利默里克市. (Limerick, Ireland)
鼓手: Fergal(费加尔)
全名: Fergal Patrick Lawler(费加尔·帕特里克·洛勒尔)
生日: 1971年3月4日.
家乡: 爱尔兰,利默里克市. (Limerick, Ireland)
专辑曲目:
01. Promises
02. Animal Instinct
03. Loud And Clear
04. Ode To My Family
05. The Icicle Melts
06. Linger
07. Wanted
08. Salvation
09. Desperate Andy
10. Go Your Own Way
11. Pretty
12. When You're Gone
13. I Can't Be With You
14. Waltzing Back
15. Free To Decide
16. Zombie
17. Ridiculous Thoughts
18. Dying In The Sun
19. You And Me
20. Just My Imagination
21. Delilah
22. Dreams

华伦夫人的职业 英国佬的另一个岛 巴巴娜少校

Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916 -- Ireland's brave but fractured revolt against British rule -- At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O'Neill.
Jim Mack is a naïve young scholar and the son of a foolish, aspiring shopkeeper. Doyler Doyle is the rough-diamond son -- revolutionary and blasphemous -- of Mr. Mack's old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the nude, the two boys make a pact: Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year, on Easter of 1916, they will swim to the distant beacon of Muglins Rock and claim that island for themselves. All the while Mr. Mack, who has grand plans for a corner shop empire, remains unaware of the depth of the boys' burgeoning friendship and of the changing landscape of a nation.

Granta 135 is a snapshot of contemporary Ireland, which shows where one of the world's most distinguished and independent literary traditions is today. Here international stars rub shoulders with a new generation of talent from a country which keeps producing exceptional writers.
This issue features Kevin Barry on Cork, "as intimate and homicidal as a little Marseille"; Lucy Caldwell imagining forbidden first love in Belfast; an exclusive extract of Colm Toibin's next novel, about growing up in the shadow of a famous father; fiction from Emma Donaghue about Victorian Ireland's miraculous fasting girls; and Sara Baume describing the wild allure and threat of the rural landscape.
Also featuring fiction from Colin Barrett, John Connell, Mary O'Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, Siobhan Mannion, Belinda McKeon, Sally Rooney, Donal Ryan, and William Wall; poetry from Tara Bergin, Leontia Flynn and Stephen Sexton; photography by Doug DuBois, Stephen Dock and Birte Kaufmann; with original portraits of the authors in their environment by acclaimed street photographer Eamonn Doyle.

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this century's greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision. Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeats's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's most beloved poets available in paperback.

Flann O’Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels–collected here in one volume–are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius.
O’Brien’s masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds, is an exuberant literary send-up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century. The novel’s narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories. The riotous cast of characters includes figures “stolen” from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their author’s control and destroy him.
The narrator of The Third Policeman, who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul (who is named “Joe”).
The Poor Mouth, a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture. A naïve young orphan narrates the deadpan farce The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar-tending James Joyce. With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue.
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“A real writer, with the true comic spirit.”
—James Joyce
“Unquestionably a major author . . . Flann O’Brien assault[s] your brain with words, style, magic, madness, and unlimited invention.”
—Anthony Burgess
“O’Brien was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.”
—BOSTON GLOBE
“At Swim-Two-Birds has remained in my mind ever since it first appeared as one of the best books of our century. A book in a thousand . . . in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy.”
—Graham Greene
“At Swim-Two-Birds is both a comedy and fantasy of such staggering originality that it baffles description and very nearly beggars our sense of delight.”
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“[The Third Policeman is] the funniest book ever written . . . and scariest.”
—Charles Baxter, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
“The Poor Mouth shows a comic genius working close to his best capability. Humor of this quality, this intensity, is very rare; as witty in its language as in its invention, it cries to be read aloud.”
—NEWSWEEK