Word: beales
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Robert L. Beal '63, president of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, said yesterday he opposes the amendment because it would result in higher real estate taxes. "The voters haven't been told the legislature will be able to change the assessed value percentages within the four classes any time. The advertising by the city is confusing voters...
Buffy Groves, Nick Beal--Sword-in-the-Stone Coffeehouse...
MYLES NA GOPALEEN (alias Flann O'Brien, born. Brian Nolan, self-Irished to Brian O'Nolan, Gaelicized by his publishers to Brian O'Nauallain) notes sadly in the foreword to the third edition of An Beal Bocht that few are still interested in preserving Gaelic tales and tradition, as proved by the fact that no one reads his book. Non-Gaelic-speaking Gaeligores (those enthusiastic about Irish language and literature) should be glad An Beal Bocht, first printed in Ireland in 1941, is finally available in an English translation true to the mocking wit of the original...
...seen by the folk in Corkadoragha", a remote "Gaeltacht". Though in the preface to the first edition, "The Editor" cautions that Corkadoragha is "without compare" and not to be taken as representative of the Gaelic community as a whole, in fact the town where the author-narrator of An Beal Bocht, O'Coonassa, was born and lived, does stand for all the Gaeltacht of West Ireland that O'Coonassa can see from his "small, lime-white and unhealthy house situated in the corner of the glen": from the bare Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where...
...LOUISE BEAL Lawrence, Mass...