Word: cruiskeen
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...there is no argument in all Eire: the favorite Irish newspaper columnist is Brian O'Nolan, who writes for Dublin's Irish Times. He is small, dark, young (31). The impish O'Nolan, a novelist, playwright and civil servant, writes a six-a-week column titled Cruiskeen Lawn (The Little Overflowing Jug) under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen (pronounced Copaleen, means Myles of the Little Horses...
There is nothing like Cruiskeen Lawn or its author anywhere in English or American journalism. His column is written in what O'Nolan describes as "socalled English" three days of the week; in "the kingly and melodious Irish" on the other three. It is as atmospheric of Dublin as the flower-&-vegetable women of Moore Street, or the giant Nelson's pillar which keeps a bleak eye socket on the drizzled city. Because he works as Assistant Principal, Local Government and Public Health officer all week, O'Nolan writes all six columns on Sunday...
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