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Later, Pontiac expects to put out its own new sporty car. It was originally dubbed the Banshee, but then someone had the bright idea of looking up the meaning of the word. The definition read: "In Gaelic folklore, a supernatural being whose wailing was supposed to foretell a death." Back to the christening font for that...
...viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien, who once collaborated on a shrewd, satirical movie about Ireland (The Girl with Green Eyes), could have failed to add a leaven of Gaelic laughter to this treacle...
Dunn teaches one undergraduate course: Celtic 100. "Celtic Literature in Translation." Some undergraduates also attend his courses in Middle Irish, Early Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic...
...cathedral towns of England." He persuaded the fellowship officials to let him try something else, arguing that "it wasn't a very good time to be seeing the cathedral towns of England and I had seen them all anyway." He went instead to Cape Breton to study the Scot-Gaelic settlements there, and took his bride, a Bryn Mawr girl named Cambell, along on a honeymoon...
...Harvard, Dunn had taught Celtic Literature in Translation, Middle Irish, Early Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and seminars on Middle Celtic. He won't say how many languages he can speak or read. "But if I were isolated on a desert island," he speculates, "I would quite naturally study whatever was at hand, I suppose...