Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate on the election was along party lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
...Gaelic Songs--Hebridean Islands, arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Kishmul's Galley The Seagull Island Sheiling Song Milking croon Churning lilt Death croon Sea-Reiver's Song...
...rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains and was her darling for 20 years-and then unwraps from his patterned kerchief some songs of his own in the Gaelic that have been "compared very favorably to those of the great Dan Hoyser...
...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...
When Eamonn (Edward) De Valera, Hispano-Gaelic* hothead, resigned from the presidency of Sinn Fein* (TIME, March 22), the world learned with surprise that there are hotter heads than his in the party, that they had voted down "his policies...