Word: gaelicism
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...near Shannon Airport, a newly landed Irish-American couple listened to the rich, incomprehensible patois of the regulars at the bar. "Just listen, Harry," breathed the wife. "They're talking Gaelic!" Actually, they were talking German. What the U.S. tourists did not realize was that the "natives" were squireens from West Germany who, like scores of their compatriots, have been eagerly buying up cut-rate Irish real estate...
...tailfins, and more and more parental energy is being consumed in naming the baby - a process once automatically determined by saints and ancestors. Some current fashions: ¶ For the boys,revived Celtic names seem to be the thing: Kevin. Sean, Colin, Brian, Keith. Lynn, a variation of the Gaelic word for waterfall, is a favorite for girls...
Shouts of "Is Maith Liom Ike"-Gaelic for "I Like Ike" greeted Ike as he landed in Dublin for a four-day visit. After a day's rest, he took off in a helicopter for the tiny village of Roundwood to visit former Irish President Sean O'Kelly. "I told you I was coming," Ike grinned, the rain streaming down his face. Inside, the two old friends chatted for an hour over warming mugs of coffee, then he returned to Dublin, for a round of golf that was cut short after six holes because everyone was soaked...
Whether the Gaelic language can be preserved in modern times is questionable. Many Irishmen who support the movement fear that it will fail. "It seems a forlorn hope," says Professor O'Neill, "but then everything about Ireland was a forlorn hope...
...what is called the "Irish mode." He points out that recent Irish poets, notably Yeats, have had a great influence on all of modern English poetry. Irish poetry in English does not scan like ordinary English classical poetry, since it cannot be divided into feet. This is because Gaelic has a different rhythm, much of which has been retained in the ordinary English speech of the Irish, and that rhythm has affected Irish versification...