Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permeate his story of Don Juan? As the books' sales mount, the resistance multiplies. Three parodies of Castaneda have appeared in New York magazines and papers lately, and the critics seem to be preparing to skewer Don Juan as a kind of anthropological Ossian, the legendary third century Gaelic poet whose works James Macpherson foisted upon 18th century British readers...
...effect is right. Waiting for death, as the four characters in Endgame are, why not expire with a gag rather than a whimper? Gregory captures that aspect of Beckett that is too frequently scanted, his Gaelic gallows humor, his fascination with vaudeville turns, his boozy way with a monologue that is pure barroom oneupmanship...
...involved groups of two or three automobiles making hit-and-run attacks in areas that had been considered safe. A few days before the Protestant strike, for instance, a car stopped casually near a spot where a group of Catholics were engaged in a Sunday afternoon hurling match, the Gaelic version of hockey. Suddenly the men in the car sprayed the crowd with machine-gun fire, wounding a young goalkeeper, a teen-age boy and a 14-year-old girl...
...voters put economic reality before nationalist rhetoric. In a highly emotional antiMarket campaign, Sinn Féin (Gaelic for "We Ourselves") distributed almost 1,000,000 pamphlets urging voters "once and for all to break the link with England by voting no to England's interests." One antiMarket billboard showed an ugly, cigar-chomping German industrialist saying "We need your little daughter in the Ruhr," a reference to the prospect that unemployed Irish workers might have to seek jobs on the Continent. Labor unions worried about "the oppressive open competition of European industrial society...
After his release from prison, MacStiofáin moved to Ireland, where he worked a bit as a traveling salesman and as an employee of the Gaelic Athletic Association but devoted most of his time to the movement. Although I.R.A. units in the North are responsible for tactical decisions, MacStiofáin as chief of staff is consulted on overall strategy. He neither drinks nor smokes, and his command presence is unmistakable. A fervent nationalist who would impose Gaelic on Ireland as its sole language if he had his way, MacStiofáin is ferociously anti-British. "I have always...