Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers wary of the plush language of the "gadzooks, hussy!" school may be suspicious of the special idiom of Bring Larks. But there is no Errol Flimflam here. Keneally has devised a garbled-Gaelic speech that seems perfectly to fit the character of his protagonist who, like another gifted innocent, Billy Budd, speaks with the tongue of men and angels. In fact the doomed man's only legacy is verses, hidden in a government ledger and negligently destroyed by a bored governor who could make nothing of them. One poem hopes that out of the cesspool, time will "bring...
Carney and his fellow actors create sporadic moments of ringing laughter and poignance. They are, in fact, better than the plays. Friel's language has a Gaelic thrust and lilt, but his lace-curtained Irish dramas could easily have been written three decades ago. Unfortunately, what was valid in the '30s seems pallid...
...Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away), but it became his passion; it had the advantage of belonging to the boyhood of history. Later, for perhaps the very same reason, he threw himself into the study of Gaelic, spent years translating a 12th century Latin bestiary, and became an armchair authority on the Emperor Hadrian...
PHYSICALLY, Carlotta Wilsen is a performer difficult to miss. Her brilliant red hair, and chiselled Nordic-Gaelic features, combined with statuesque height and posture to match, give her a striking concert presence, one that has not been seen here in a long time...
James Hoare and David C. Perry provided the music--a pleasant Gaelic acid-rock...