Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Harding (United States)−Coles Phillips, illustrator; J. B. Stetson (hats) ; 28 American athletes sailing for the revival of the Ancient Irish games, the Aonac Thailltean, at Dublin; John Devoy, 82-year-old Editor of The Gaelic American...
DUBLIN DAYS?L. A. G. Strong? Boni and Liveright ($1.25). A small and pleasant posy of Irish herbs and flowers?poems lacking the conventional oh-so-damn-Gaelic concern with the Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles. Uncle White Seagull and the rest of the melancholy paraphernalia of minor Irish bards. It is evident that the author has read James Stephens, but he has his own individual way of speaking, clear, fresh and cool as the sound of a country brook. Poems for even a reviewer to keep and reread...
...runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...