Word: connemara
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...Author, now stationed at Connemara, wrote his book in Gaelic "for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends." The Free State Ministry of Education wanted to print it, with certain revisions. Guardsman O'Sullivan would not be bothered. A young English linguist in Dublin read the autobiography, translated it as faithfully as possible into Irish English, which clings close to the ancient singing Gaelic. Stocky Guardsman O'Sullivan, now 30, seemed satisfied with the translation. "Here is the egg of a sea-bird," writes Author E. M. Forster in a preface, "lovely, perfect, and laid...
...late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School; 20 lively sea and landscapes by George ("AE") Russell. Most indigenous works were a John Keating, called Holy Joe of the Mountains; and Power O'Malley's Irish Madonna, a serene and affectionate study of a Connemara peasant girl clasping her towheaded brat; and 25 or more canvases by Patrick Joseph Tuohy, 36-year-old member of the Royal Hibernian Academy who was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Sept...
...novel, which is about a certain auburn-haired Connemara, was begun by Carolyn Wells, continued by Alexander Woollcott, carried on by Louis Bromfield, sustained by Elsie Janis. On Jan. 17, Ed Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...