Derek Bell, the versatile harpist with the Chieftains, one of the most celebrated Irish traditional bands, died on Oct. 15 in his hotel in Phoenix.
Matt Molloy is the flautist in The Chieftains, one of Ireland's most successful groups, so, unsurprisingly, his pub is known for its trad music nights as well as its pints.
Things are bumpy enough that even Valleywag's normally trenchant and witty Owen Thomas called me in a post yesterday slamming the new Kindle as both a "digital chieftain" and one of the "addled lords of print".
TO HEAR Britain's corporate chieftains complain, one would never think that Britain had the most successful economy in the European Union, or the lowest unemployment in the G8 group of big industrialised countries, or a high ranking in the various world competitiveness tables.
Not content with her real forebears -- Scottish on one side, German on the other -- she concocted an ancestry replete with Highland chieftains, Norse royalty and French kings.
On one hand, the corporate chieftain blowing a noisemaker into your ear may be celebrating an unprecedented 12 months of prosperity.
We thought it was because she had heard the story about the air raid and the chieftain's daughter one too many times.
Mr. Terfel, his likeness ubiquitous on season brochures and posters, was cast as Wotan, the two-faced, one-eyed chieftain of the Norse gods.
"Recruiting hypocrite chieftains of tribes is one axis," said Mr. bin Laden, according to a translation posted by the United States government's Open Source Center.
Then there are his uncompromising public commissions, including a brutal depiction of the one-eyed chieftain Claudius Civilis, a painting that was removed in disgust from the town hall in Amsterdam and returned to him.
