Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irish have always cultivated the art of living, and they still have time and space for the slow perusal of race horses, the thoughtful consumption of stout, and weighty disputation in rich, foamy periods that make English English seem like verbal porridge. Ireland's traditional shanachies, its Gaelic storytellers, still spin their grave tales in the western counties, and of late have also favored Radio Eireann with their...
...stand in 1876. Later, addressing the Irish Parliament, Kennedy presented the Irish Republic with a Civil War battle flag of the Irish Brigade. The brigade, said he, fought at Fredericksburg, Md., on Sept. 13, 1862. The date was actually Dec. 13, 1862. And it was Virginia, not Maryland. The Gaelic spelling of the name. This version and the anglicized "Kennedy" have been used more or less interchangeably for decades in County Wexford. Among those who still use the Irish tongue, it is still O Cinneide, or just plain Cinneide...
...near Shannon Airport, a newly landed Irish-American couple listened to the rich, incomprehensible patois of the regulars at the bar. "Just listen, Harry," breathed the wife. "They're talking Gaelic!" Actually, they were talking German. What the U.S. tourists did not realize was that the "natives" were squireens from West Germany who, like scores of their compatriots, have been eagerly buying up cut-rate Irish real estate...
...tailfins, and more and more parental energy is being consumed in naming the baby - a process once automatically determined by saints and ancestors. Some current fashions: ¶ For the boys,revived Celtic names seem to be the thing: Kevin. Sean, Colin, Brian, Keith. Lynn, a variation of the Gaelic word for waterfall, is a favorite for girls...
Shouts of "Is Maith Liom Ike"-Gaelic for "I Like Ike" greeted Ike as he landed in Dublin for a four-day visit. After a day's rest, he took off in a helicopter for the tiny village of Roundwood to visit former Irish President Sean O'Kelly. "I told you I was coming," Ike grinned, the rain streaming down his face. Inside, the two old friends chatted for an hour over warming mugs of coffee, then he returned to Dublin, for a round of golf that was cut short after six holes because everyone was soaked...