Word: celtics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
Charles Keck (U. S. S. Maine Memorial) was fashioning an 18-ft. Celtic cross to back the figure of the late Father Francis P. Duffy, famed Wartime chaplain of the 69th New York Regiment. This $15,000 job, to adorn Manhattan's Times Square, was given direct to Sculptor Keck by the Father Duffy Memorial Committee and approved by the New York Municipal Art Commission...
After graduation, Robinson continued his studies in philology here, receiving the Ph.D. in 1894, and later took work at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is a world authority on Celtic languages and Chaucer, and acted as editor of the Cambridge Chaucer...