Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter.
 He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member.
 Hannon wrote the theme tunes for the sitcoms "Father Ted" and "The IT Crowd".
Obelix (Obélix in French) is a cartoon character and protagonist in the French comic book series Asterix.
 He works as a menhir sculptor and deliveryman, and is Asterix's best friend.
 Obelix is noted for his fatness, the menhirs he carries around on his back and his superhuman strength.
 He fell into a cauldron of the Gauls' magic potion when he was a baby, causing him to be the only Gaul in Asterix's village who is in a permanent state of superhuman strength.
 Because of this already enormous strength, Obelix is not allowed to drink the magic potion ever again, a ban he regards as being tremendously unfair.
 Other characteristics are his simplemindedness, his love and care for his dog Dogmatix, his anger when someone refers to him as being ""fat"", his enthusiasm for hunting and eating wild boars and beating up Romans.
 His catchphrase is: ""Ils sont fous ces romains"", which translates into "These Romans are crazy!"
, although he considers nearly every other nationality to be just as strange.
Paul A. Goble (born 1949) is an American analyst, writer and columnist with expertise on Russia.
 Trained at Miami University (B.A., 1970) and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1973), he is the editor of four volumes on ethnic issues in the former Soviet Union and has published more than 150 articles on ethnic and nationality questions.
 Goble served as special adviser on Soviet nationality issues and Baltic affairs to Secretary of State James Baker.
Let There Be Love is Joni James debut album, recorded in 1953 and released by MGM Records at the end of the year.
 It was released in a four-disc 10-inch 78-rpm record box, in both a two-disc 7-inch 45-rpm extended-play foldout album and a four-disc 45-rpm regular-play box and on a 10-inch 33⅓-rpm album.
 The serial number, 222, coincidentally included James's lucky number, "22," which appeared in many of her record serial numbers all over the world.
 The album is the first to present its songs as a book in music, opening with "Let There Be Love" and closing with "I'll Be Seeing You", with the songs telling a story start to finish.
 The memorable cover was done at M-G-M Pictures Studios in Culver City by artist Russ Gale.
 From the album a single of "Let There Be Love" and "You're Nearer" was shipped to radio stations.
 Then, by public demand, a single of "You're My Everything" and "You're Nearer" was released.
 This album offered Joni's second recording of "Let There Be Love," which had been released in an earlier version in 1952 as her first single on Sharp Records in Chicago, then going to M-G-M Records for further distribution.
 Both recordings were arranged and conducted by Lew Douglas.
 "Let There Be Love" went to the top of the album charts and was the sixth-best-selling album of 1953.
 In 1956 the album was reissued as a 12-inch L.P. and in three single EPs; there was no EP set including the entire album.
 For this release, four Joni James singles were added, but one of them had never been released.
 That was "I Need You Now," which was to have followed the hit "My Love, My Love" but was canceled when Eddie Fisher came out with a version recorded several weeks after Joni's.
 M-G-M had expected Joni's original version to go straight to #1.
 For the new album the first four songs and second four songs were switched to get "You're My Everything" in the outside groove of the L.P. to facilitate disc jockey play.
 So, for 50 years, the story the album tells has been garbled.
 In 1961 the album got new cover art, a new serial number (E3931), and an electronically simulated stereo release.
 Released again on compact disk with yet more bonus tracks, the album is in its fifth decade as a best seller.
 Joni James hopes for yet another release which will restore the original song order.
 Significantly, for her last M-G-M album, "Bossa Nova Style", Joni included new recordings of several songs from "Let There Be Love", including a new single of "You're Nearer."
 That album was arranged by Lew Douglas's protégé Chuck Sagle.
 This information comes from Wayne Brasler, longtime President of the Joni James International Fan Club and the writer of the album notes for all Joni James' CD releases.
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe.
 It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to write the novel "Gaston de Blondeville", which was published posthumously in 1826).
 "The Italian" has a dark, mysterious and somber tone, and concerns the themes of love, devotion and persecution by the Holy Inquisition.
 The novel also deals with issues prevalent at the time of the French Revolution, such as religion, aristocracy, and nationality.
 Radcliffe's renowned use of veiled imagery is considered to have reached its height of sophistication and complexity in "The Italian"; concealment and disguise are central motifs of the novel.
 In line with late 18th-century sensibility and its parallel fetishisation of the sublime and the sentimentally pastoral, the heightened emotional states of Radcliffe's characters are often reflected through the pathetic fallacy.
 The novel is noted for its extremely effective antagonist, Father Schedoni.
Born Dead is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Body Count.
 The album was released on September 6, 1994.
 Among other tracks, the album features a cover of Billy Roberts' "Hey Joe," performed in the style of Jimi Hendrix' recording of the song, as originally featured on the "Are You Experienced" album.
 Body Count's cover of the song was first featured on the Hendrix tribute album "".
 In the liner notes, Ice-T dedicates the album "to all the people of color throughout the entire world: Asian, Latino, Native American, Hawaiian, Italian, Indian, Persian, African, Aboriginal and any other nationality that white supremacists would love to see born dead."
 "Born Dead" peaked at #74 on the "Billboard" 200.
Sunny 16 is the second of a three-EP series by Ben Folds.
 The EP includes one cover track, "Songs Of Love" (written and performed originally by Neil Hannon's Divine Comedy on the 1996 album "Casanova").
 The song "Rock Star" was co-written by his wife, Frally Hynes-Folds.
Achy Obejas (born June 28, 1956) is a Cuban-American writer and translator focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Oakland, California.
 She frequently writes on her sexuality and nationality, and has received numerous awards for her creative work.
 Obejas' stories and poems have appeared in "Prairie Schooner", "Fifth Wednesday Journal", "TriQuarterly", "Another Chicago Magazine" and many other publications.
 Some of her work was originally published in "Esto no tiene nombre", a Latina lesbian magazine published and edited by tatiana de la tierra, which gave voice to the Latina lesbian community.
 Obejas worked as a journalist in Chicago for more than two decades, and is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she teaches creative writing.
Arturo Belano is the alter ego of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.
 The character's first appearance was in the novella "Distant Star", where he was the narrator, while his most prominent role was in "The Savage Detectives" where he and fellow writer Ulises Lima are the central characters.
 Belano also appears in several short stories and in the novella "Amulet"; he is of the same age and nationality as Bolaño, with many shared elements in their biographies including a move from Chile to Mexico in their teens with their families, traveling around the world, and finally settling in Spain.
 According to Bolaño's notes, Belano is also the narrator of the novel "2666".
Józef Mackiewicz (April 1, 1902 – January 31, 1985) was a Polish writer, novelist and political commentator; best known for his documentary novels "Nie trzeba głośno mówić" (One Is Not Supposed to Speak Aloud), and "Droga donikąd" (The Road to Nowhere).
 He staunchly opposed communism, referring to himself as an "anticommunist by nationality".
 Mackiewicz died in exile.
 His older brother Stanisław Mackiewicz was also a writer.

Question: What nationality was the writer of "Songs of Love"?
Answer: Northern Irish