Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among the Irish that when he decided to come stateside to further his training he knew right where to go. Providence has become a home-away-from-home for the Irish athletes there, who like it because of its small size and atmosphere of closeness (another of Amato's Gaelic recruits, freshman David Ball, won the junior varsity race in a smoking...
...hustings appearances of the two chief candidates also figured in the outcome. Jack Lynch, 59, a much admired former Gaelic games champion from Cork, and Prime Minister from 1966 to 1973, ignored an injured ankle and a nagging cold to make a two-week, 4,000-mile swing through the country, which attracted large crowds. By contrast, Cosgrave, son of a former Irish Free State Prime Minister, carried on what amounted to a noncampaign. Shy and intensely private, Cosgrave avoided pressing voter flesh as much as he could. The Prime Minister approached politicking, teased London's Sunday Times, rather...
...another." To the extent that Corry's book ends with the tragedy of the clan's Americanization, its assimilation into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry, as another Irishman, can never really condone the family's fall from a state of Gaelic grace, and his book carries with it the insistently remonstrative tone of the well-bred but confidently self-righteous priests and nuns who people it. But still, Corry recognizes that he can't speak ill of his subjects, for the cozy world of Irish-American society they abandoned has slowly...
Fell deals extensively with Algonquin place names in New England, which he says were derived from ancient Celtic. Curiously, he attempts to prove their Celtic origin by pointing out similarities between the Algonquin and recent Gaelic. Goddard described this as similar to "using a modern French dictionary to read Latin...
However, Dunn said yesterday, when ancient Gaelic rites of witch-expulsion were christianized, Scottish priests continued to appeal to the Gaelic deities that had become saints...