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Just listen. The jaunty fiddling of a Celtic folk song. The stammering voice of Melville's Billy Budd protesting his innocence. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's rousing rendition of Beethoven's Fifth. And the husky, down-home inflections of Garrison Keillor inviting one and all to drop in on the imaginary hamlet of Lake Wobegon, "the little town that time forgot and that decades cannot improve...
Harvard is also the only school in North America which awards doctoral degrees in Celtic Studies. "Other schools are just beginning to smuggle Celtic Studies into their programs under the guise of English," he adds...
Harvard's Celtic Department consists of O Coilean, the new chairman, one associate professor, a handful of graduate student concentrators, and about 100 course offerings...
...word "Celtic" is a real problem. I don't believe there is a Celtic so much as an Irish tradition. 'Celtic' makes the topic seem very remote and isolated, while Irish, Scottish or Welsh relate more personally to someone who might be flipping through a course catalogue, O Coilean says, "'Celtic' relates more to a basketball team...
...that hundreds of students arrive and are turned away after the first lecture. People see the word 'Celtic' and don't see how the subject could be relevant to them...