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• n  flattery designed to gain favor
• v  influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

• The Last Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity .
• His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker.
• This time the Cockneys and Afro-Brits are joined by crooks Russian, Hasidic-American and crypto-Irish Gypsy (a funny, blarney-spewing Brad Pitt).

• coaxing
• soft soap
• sweet talk
• wheedle
• cajole
• palaver
• coax
• sweet-talk
• inveigle

News & Articles

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• Irish Music Festival raises money for locals impacted by autism
  The First Annual Blarney at the Beach Irish Music Festival was held Sunday in Avila Beach.
  June 10, 2013 - KSBY San Luis Obispo
• Brendan Vacations and Aer Lingus Join to Celebrate The Gathering and All Things Irish
  DELRAY BEACH, FL -- It isn't too late to kiss the Blarney Stone and enjoy the luck of the Irish! Brendan Vacations and Aer Lingus, Ireland's official air carrier, have partnered to offer a limited-time ...
  June 6, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Ben Stiller in Movies.ie
  I know it's going to sound like some tourist blarney, but Ireland does feel like a second home to me,says Ben Stiller in our video interview below. "I feel I know it better than I know Hollywood. At least, I wish I did. It's been a long...
• James McAvoy in Contactmusic.com
  MCAvoy says, "It's completely disrespectful to an Irishman to suggest the English overlords all had Irish accents, just because you want a bit of the Irish blarney for the American audiences." "The country has made my career, made FOREST...