Word: coilean
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...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...
...Coilean's own field is Irish folklore, linguistics, history and literature--which fits in well with the American emphasis on historical linguistics, as opposed to the Irish emphasis on the literature alone...
Before coming to Cambridge, O Coilean taught and studied at Cork--now, he works in a basement office in Widener Library that he shares with Kelleber, eleventh on a waiting list to get his own Widener office...
Although O Coilean did two years of his graduate work at Harvard, he has not returned to America since 1971. Arriving now with his wife and four children in June. O Coilean says that in addition to the immediate problems of learning to drive a car on the right side of the road and the like, he faces more long-term conflicts...
Especially with those unusual American customs. "I like hockey. It suits the Irish temperament," O Coilean says. But, he adds, "I don't like American football. And baseball could be gotten over with a lot more quickly...