Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly new species of leadership for Ireland...
Though in foreign lands, they invincibly stayed themselves; they also showed an uncanny ability to adapt to other cultures, whether in Latin America, where they concocted a lilting lingua franca known as Spanglish, or Down Under, where they developed a spectacular sport known as Australian Rules, a blend of Gaelic football and rugby...
Among those who stayed on, there was a paralyzing sense of frustration and fatalism. Life was not only hard-it was dull. To many Irishmen, the perverse, pervasive mediocrity of their culture was typified by Gaelic-worship...
...dying Gaelic tongue had become the badge of Irish nationalism during the revolution-though few of its leaders could speak it. Even before 1949, when the Republic of Eire was established, the government had made Gaelic language study compulsory in the schools, even encouraged students to take other subjects entirely in Gaelic...
...universities and population centers. The Irish have made executives and technicians from more than a dozen countries resoundingly welcome. They cheered mightily for Schoolgirl Harumi Suzuki, eight-year-old daughter of a Japanese plant manager at Shannon, when she carried off first and third prizes for Irish poetry and Gaelic recitation. Young Ireland's horizons are being broadened by the foreign students who have been flocking to Irish universities, where they comprise nearly 17% of total enrollment; most come from Afro-Asian countries, where the distinctive accent of ex-colonial, nonaligned Dublin has become something of a status symbol...