Word: gaelicism
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...opera societies which import stars for about seven weeks a year of old-fashioned grand opera, a green countryside full of amateur balladeers, and that is about all. Composer Victory decided to do something about it, last week unveiled in Dublin the world's first opera in Gaelic...
...Senator, grandson and namesake of the late President and Chief Justice. Taft, 37, avidly sought the appointment (left vacant by the death last October of Francis P. Matthews), and has much to recommend him: he is an official of the Central Intelligence Agency, an authority on Gaelic culture, and he lived for some time in Ireland as a member of the postwar ECA mission there (his fourth, Irish-born child is named Sean). A Yale graduate and Princeton Ph.D., Episcopalian Taft has taught English at Yale, Maryland and Haverford, has kept up his Celtic studies as a hobby. He will...
...Bernard Shaw in 1906, "is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again." In the late 19th century and early 20th, when the bone of Gaelic nationality was painfully being set, Ireland found voice to curse, plead, moan, gasp, roar and sing out a literature as great and sudden as any of modern times...
Winning the Blue. A small, pale man with waning hair and a limp brought on by World War II wounds, Macleod speaks a scholar's Gaelic and a debater's English. He went about getting into politics the way he went about winning his "blue" (i.e., school letter) at Cambridge. Only fair at sports, he started a bridge club and thus won his blue (going on to become one of Britain's bridge aces in international tourneys and bridge editor for the London Sunday Times'). When he wanted to enter Parliament after the war, he contested...
Jamie (John Raitt) is a young Irishman who, when offered three wishes by the Queen of the Fairies, chooses travel, a lovely bride and a son who shall speak Gaelic. His first wish granted, Jamie gains his second (Anne Jeffreys) near Atlanta, Ga. But his bride turns out to be barren, and the third wish takes a lot of plot...