Word: celtic
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...week the walls of Manhattan's famed Carnegie Hall rang to the strong strains of Welsh folk-music. Most of the performing Cymry were born in Wales, now live in the U. S. The solemn, intense, long-skulled choristers of Cleveland's Cambrian Male Choir sang ancient Celtic hymns. New York's Welsh Women's Chorus, in scarlet capes and topper-like hats, proved that a language that looks shy on vowels need not sound unmusical...
...this silence on Ireland seems to be carelessness, rather than any premeditated desire to suppress the facts. Indeed, President Eliot, started quite a renaissance in Irish culture, and brought to Harvard a number of prominent students, among them Professor Fred N. Robinson 91, whose tireless research in old Celtic was awarded last year with a degree from the University of Dublin. This work has been steadily carried on, although in comparative secrecy. The archeological expedition that has been at work in Ireland for the last four years under the direction of Hugh Hencken '31, of the Peabody Muscum, is just...
...field of literature, there is no course given which uses translations of the old Celtic texts. Students must master the language or go without the riches offered by other American colleges. To study Irish works written in English, they must take a wide range of courses in English literature, on the bare chance of catching a reference to Burke or Moore or Bernard Shaw...
...roots of recorded history go the connections between Spain and Ireland. On an English dockside fortnight ago, Welsh-born David Lloyd George exaggerated mildly when he cried: "I am a Basque!" (TIME, May 3). Anthropologists agree that physically the Basques are indistinguishable from the members of the Celtic race, the Welsh, the Irish, the Bretons and the Scots...
...Rhine, spread loosely through Europe, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, and reached Ireland and England only a few years before the Roman invasion of 55-A. D. They have a basic language. Today linguists agree that the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Breton languages are related to the Celtic. The Basques, however, a mountainous folk, were little influenced by the Celtic invasion of Spain in the 6th Century B. C., have today a completely unrelated language...