Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual Christmas miracle play of the Harvard Dramatic Club this year will be given on December 19 and 20, against the cathedral background of the Germanic Museum. "Dublin Cycle" translated from the Gaelic by Katherine Tynan Hinkson, has been selected and will make its initial performance in America. One of the classics of Gaelic literature, "Dublin Cycle" has retained all its native beauty of rhyme and action because of the fine work of Miss Hinkson in translation. The production will be directed by Gerald Harrington '31 and will be open without charge to all members of the audience of "Fiesta...
Grandson Jim makes good telling of his drab childhood, his golden-haired mother, his whiskey-bibbling father. In Shanty Irish he attains not the strange lure of roving Beggars of Life (recently effectively distorted for the cinema; see TIME. Oct. 8), but projects instead that charming Gaelic shiftlessness which composes, cheek by jowl with uninspired Teutonic steadiness, the U. S. formula...
Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care...
...Titillating is the presence in the U. S. of famed "Gaelic Sage" George William Russell, poet, painter, mystic, essayist economist, and editor of the Irish Statesman, who has intrigued many by his pseudonym...
...authentic co-leader with William Butler Yeats of the "Gaelic Renaissance," Sage Russell, now lecturing throughout the U. S., commands respect for the following judgment: ". . . The first phase of great civilization is that of mastery of the plastic and material arts. America is now passing through this phase: witness her buildings that scrape the skies, rails thrown across a continent. Your next phase will be literature. I believe a gigantic literature...