Word: gaelic
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...youth wing to instruct the sons and daughters of Republican families in Irish history, teach them the shadowy rules of urban guerrilla warfare and screen them for paramilitary service. John, 16, joined the youth wing when he was 13, and his early years mainly consisted of reading books, learning Gaelic and, to his frustration, painting posters and marching. "We've been protesting for 20 years against the Brits, and they've never taken any heed," he says. "They take heed...
...stories Trevor selects stretch from the distant past to the here and now, although the emphasis falls decidedly on 20th century works. Thus some brief tales translated from the original Gaelic lead to a succession of pieces by well-known names (Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde) and then to such acknowledged modern masterpieces as James Joyce's The Dead and Frank O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law. The familiar mixes easily with material less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together...
...talent for politics that would make Boston's legendary Mayor James Michael Curley beam with pride. On the East Coast, they have revitalized neighborhoods deserted by their American cousins. Local shops sell everything from soda bread to Irish candies and bacon. The bleachers are filled for Irish football at Gaelic Park in the Bronx and Dilboy Field near Boston. In New York's Irish neighborhoods, pubs are packed on weekends. "At home in County Offaly, the bars are empty," says Mary Cahill, 26, who has been in America two years. "Most of the young people are in the U.S., Britain...
Headed for a Sunday-afternoon game of Gaelic football near the border, Aidan McAnespie, 23, a Roman Catholic Ulsterman, passed through a security checkpoint just outside the town of Aughnacloy in Northern Ireland last week. Shots rang out from a tower manned by British soldiers and McAnspie crumpled to the ground, fatally wounded. The British army promptly took into custody the man who fired the gun, Grenadier Guardsman David Jonathan Holden, 18. Holden claimed he had accidentally set off his weapon and that McAnespie was killed by a ricocheting bullet...
...fact, Bok's claim is, in this case, partly true. We know from experience that many core courses have fewer than 1000 people in them. And rumours have filtered through the grapevine that some classes, especially in subjects like Gaelic Window Dressing, and Musical Traditions of the Early Troglodytes, have so few students that professors are able to have personal relationships with several members of the class. We have never taken such courses, however, for several reasons. First, the classes are small for a reason: the topic is dull or obscure, for example. Second, in very small classes...