It's encouraging to see Celtic culture hitting the mainstream media - I was noticing the heavy promotion of the new NBC series "The Black Donnellys" during the weekend coverage of the Accenture Match Play Championship.
While I didn't get the opportunity to catch last night's premiere (we were off getting our taxes done), the initial reviews appear pretty favorable.
Apparently, the show is loosely based upon history, and there was a real "Black Donnellys" family in the late 1800's, and their story is summarized here.
The show was created by Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Thirtysomething, Crash, Casino Royale, Flags Of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima), so it's got a pretty impressive pedigree. (I thought it was pretty ironic that a program with a strong Celtic undercurrent was created by a gentleman with a last name of Haggis. How Scottish is THAT??? It's one part of my Scottish heritage that I haven't FULLY embraced...for OBVIOUS reasons....) {ick}
Nevertheless, if the Donnelly brothers were golfers, we'd have TartanGolfGrips.com Artans(TM) for them. The Donnelly's were a prominent family from several Irish Counties, specifically County Armagh, County Louth, County, County Donegal and County Tyrone.
That's really convenient, because each brother in the show now can have his OWN TartanGolfGrips.com golf grip. And the best part is, they could have them CUSTOMIZED with the text of their choice to suit their personalities, while still paying tribute to their Irish heritage.
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