Donnybrook: Can-Am History and a "Free-for-Brawl"

"...The donnybrook at the Halifax Mont-Blancs–Boston Imos game belied the Can–Am Hockey League's new (and supposedly improved) spirit of international cooperation..." –Mick Dupere, scribe for the St. John Gazette

Kieran: The Lord of Misrule

Every Gaudete Sunday, for as long as Seamus J. O"Sheehan could remember, his father would revive, on humble scale, a controversial Christmas tradition: The selection of the lord of misrule. Rather than being appointed by lot to reside over yuletide shenanigans that mocked the Church's hierarchy, however, Kieran would anoint himself to this household position as a means to coordinate ( albeit with a modicum of levity) a peaceful rejoicing in the season.
 

"Je suis le Prince de Sots," he would say and then light a rose-colored candle to signal his month-long reign over Christmastime protocol. Everything from the tree selection to the songs performed during the O'Sheehan St. Stephen's Day Procession to taking down the holly on Twelfth Night, this was Kieran's domain. Everything, that is, except what transpired in the O'Sheehan kitchen, for Gráinne was the queen of mince pies and soda bread.

Hockey Meets Hypermnesia

Nathalie could remember every detail of her first date with Seamus J. O'Sheehan, who knew what the word hypermnesia meant but had never met anyone who could recall with such clarity an event from five years ago.

Cloche: Covering Grianne's Baked Goods

Gráinne's Irish soda bread, baked on Saturday mornings and then covered by a fine crystal cloche that Kieran had purchased at a garage sale, would tempt Seamus J. O'Sheehan to break away from whatever book he was reading and reward himself with a late-night snack.