Word: celtics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority on Gaelic culture, and he lived for some time in Ireland as a member of the postwar ECA mission there (his fourth, Irish-born child is named Sean). A Yale graduate and Princeton Ph.D., Episcopalian Taft has taught English at Yale, Maryland and Haverford, has kept up his Celtic studies as a hobby. He will be the first Gaelic-speaking U.S. ambassador to Ireland...
...unnamed giver established the $278,000 gift "for teaching and research in Celtic languages and literatures..." He later amended the provisions and threw in the "teaching of Irish, literature, and culture...
...storm-ravaged coast of Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair...
Leede is a former Celtic basketball star. He enrolled in the Business School this fall and plans to finish the two year course while coaching the M.I.T. squad...
...rich Celtic twilight of William Butler Yeats and J. M. Synge has long since faded, but their disciples are still lighting little peat fires on the general bog of contemporary Irish literature. The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim...