Word: connemara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to resume his own kind of globetrotting, which began when he went to Oxford University in 1935 on a Rhodes scholarship from Princeton and, in the course of acquiring an honors degree in modern history, stayed abroad for 39 months and logged more than 100,000 miles from Connemara to Constantinople...
...once called it the cracked looking glass of a servant. The fashions of London, Rome and Paris were often reflected, secondhand and second-rate, in Irish painting. This week a Manhattan gallery exhibited the work of twelve Irish painters, who reflected not Europe but Dublin, the ragged hills of Connemara and the midlands around Tullamore...
...generations the fisherfolk of Galway had heard the ancient tale, how one day an island city which sank off Connemara would rise again from...
Last week a brutal storm churned the Atlantic, and on Connemara's beach the fisherfolk, whipped like so many witless ducks by rain and spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water...
...night the fisherfolk watched and wondered, until at dawn, before all Connemara's eyes, the phantom city-a fleet of 30 Spanish trawlers riding out the storm in the lee of the Aran Islands-hauled up its anchors and sailed away...