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This tale has been passed along for generations by Gaelic-speaking fundamentalist Scots, who disapprove of the happy spirit of Christmas...
...another Gaelic tradition, the young boys of various villages in Nova Scotia travel each Christmas from house to house collecting contributions for the church. At each home, the group circles around the fire and asks the woman of the house for a donation, blessing her generosity or cursing her miserliness, as the case may be. The practice persists today, with contributions going to the Red Cross...
...Crimson will try to get back on track. Wednesday when it travels to Storks. Conn to take on the UConn Huskers. The lineup will, however, have at least one hole Coach Scalier says first-strong Gaelic Janet Judge, injured in last week's 4-4 the with Boston College, may miss the rest of the season. Freshman Chris Labey, who played Saturday, will be starting in Judge's position...
...horseplaying priest, however, who best expresses O'Connor's unhappy but indissoluble Gaelic family. "O Lord," he prays, "a man gives up the whole world for You ... his friends and his job, and goes off to a bare mountain where he can't even tell his troubles to the man alongside him; and still he keeps something back, some little thing to remind him of what he gave up. With me 'twas the horses and with this man 'twas the sup of beer, and I dare say there are fellows inside who have...
...Chandos). Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is probably best known in America as a reorchestrator of Handel's Water Music. But Harty, born in County Down, was also a composer and conductor. The Irish Symphony mixes such well-known tunes as The Girl I Left Behind Me with Gaelic airs and original melodies to produce a score worthy of comparison with another delightful, little-known Irish Symphony-Sir Arthur Sullivan...