February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
THOMAS ANDREWS: SHIPBUILDER
Shan F. Bullock
Fans of the movie "Titanic" will remember one of the more sympathetic characters on board the doomed liner. Thomas Andrews was the man who designed the great ship and the first to realize that she was doomed after hitting an iceberg on a freezing April night in 1912. Shortly after the disaster, a small book in honor of Andrews’s life was published by Maunsel & Co. of Dublin and London. It has now been reproduced in hardback by Blackstaff Press in Belfast and distributed in the U.S. by Dufour Editions, Chester Springs Pa. 19425 ([610] 458-5005). 80 pp. $22.95.
SWEETER AS THE YEARS ROLL BY
James Keane
Top Button Accordionist James Keane is joined by some of the best up-and-coming Irish traditional musicians in his latest album released on the Shanachie label. They include All-Ireland and Oireachtas fiddle champion Liam O’Connor Aoife O’Connor on concertina. Shanachie.
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FROM MOUNTAIN MAN TO MILLIONAIRE
William R. Nester
At first glance this could be the tell of more than a few Irish politicians but the subtitle puts the story in an other place and time. It reads: "The ‘Bold And Dashing Life’ of Robert Campbell." The story is set in the Western fur trade era of the 1820s and ’30s. Campbell, an Irish immigrant of Ulster Scots roots, was one of the more celebrated fur traders. He later became a leading businessman in St. Louis. The author, William Nester, lectures at St. John’s University in New York and the book is published by the University of Missouri Press. 270 pp. $29.95.
UN-BREAK MY HEART
James Galway
Belfast’s James Galway goes pop in this crossover album and performs some of the biggest popular songs of the last 30 years. Songs performed by the internationally renowned flute virtuoso include "My Heart Will Go On" from the movie "Titanic" and Stevie Wonder’s "My Cherie Amour." The title of the album is taken from the Toni Braxton hit and here Galway is joined by his flautist wife, Jeanne Galway. Available in stores on CD and cassette on the RCA Victor Label.