Project Children Draws to a Close From left: William Crawley, a Project Children Alumnus; Project Children alumna Patricia MacBride; Norman Houston, director of the Northern Ireland Bureau; and Denis Mulcahy, Founder and Chairman of Project Children all speaking in Washington, D.C. By Sarah Buscher, Contributor
Project Children’s 40th anniversary celebration in Washington D.C. in September brought to a close an important chapter in Northern Ireland’s struggle for peace. For decades, this all-volunteer organization has been bringing children from both sides of the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland to spend the summer with a family in the United States as a respite from violence of the Troubles, but last summer was the final program.
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Ask the Irish tenors why they’re such a hit and they’ll give
you different answers, each oddly in keeping with their personalities.
“Tenors are known to be the romantics,” offers Anthony Kearns, who,
with his piercing blue eyes, is considered the “romantic lead” of the
three. “All the great composers wrote for the tenor voice, because I think
it’s the voice that pierces the heart most.”
Finbar Wright, the oldest, most poised of the trio, holds
forth, “It’s been medically researched that the frequencies that are
released by the tenor voice evoke an emotion in the human person better than