Word: celt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countrified Celt as well as a citified Englander, Poet MacNeice spends many of his poems in trying to figure how a contemporary European can seriously find any purpose in modern country life, any coherence in modern city life. In the beautiful and economically hopeless rural districts...
...these standard comic themes, he has tried to cash in on the superstition that anything said in Irish dialect is funny or fey, by making his scene the Irish town of Inish. But most of the cast have remarkably unfunny Irish accents, though their names are Irish. And Celt Robinson's lines have little Irish salt in them...
...otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where cold reason has feared to tread. Ireland, the home of the mystic Celt, and the fearsome Gael has always lured the adventurous. H. A. Jones is unquestionably adventurous. To have written plays during the 19th and 20th centuries with the drama at its lowest ebb, takes courage. To be mistaken for Eugene O'Neill or confused with the man who wrote "The Modern...