Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More aggressively Irish than a swinging shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...
Died. Dr. Douglas Hyde, 88, first President (1938-45) of Ireland (Eire), Gaelic scholar, poet and playwright who was nicknamed "An Craoibhin Aoibhinn" (The Delightful Little Branch)*; after long illness; in Dublin...
...token that they do not recognize partition between Northern Ireland and Eire, the Irish dropped their country's Gaelic name...
...even some Irishmen admit. Groping for the reason, Irish Poet George William Russell ("iE") once explained that by the time the art of oil painting had spread to Ireland (from England and the Continent), "the Gaelic spirit was suffering obscuration...
...most landmarks in history, by human suffering and sacrifice. And here too, patriotic Americans are not unmindful of their rich heritage. Tonight in Boston's streets, citizens will gather together in hearty bands. Glorious pageantry will ensue. Some will take the part of the British; some will don quaint Gaelic costumes and take up the storied shillelagh. And the famous contests of former days will once more enliven local byways, as the loyal sons of the sod relive the glories of Saint Patrick and the defeat of the Orangemen...