Word: gaelicism
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...with plenty of frothy pints of Guinness and smooth shots of Jameson’s to help keep the snakes away. Irish roast salmon, Irish stew, and corned beef and cabbage make their way onto the menu for the big event. But the bathrooms are labeled in Irish Gaelic, so remember: Mná is for women, Fir is for men. The Plough is just a short jaunt down Mass. Ave. from Harvard Square, and definitely worth the trip...
...Celtic Club. Meghin R. Sherlock ’07, leader Lindsay K. Turner ’07, Rita Parai ’07 and Edward Wallace, a Cambridge resident, collaborated on a variety of Celtic fiddle music from customary dirges to lighter folk songs and dances native to the Gaelic country...
...group recently traveled to the Canadian-American club in Watertown for a night of Boston Urban Ceilidh (KAY-lee). This style of Gaelic music and dance is a mixture of the modern and the traditional. Juxtaposing bagpipes and fiddles with electric guitars, the rock-influenced music places an emphasis on traditional tunes that are easy to dance to. In much the same way, the Harvard Celtic Club blends traditional folklore with modern interpretation, making an especially rich milieu of Gaelic history and culture accessible for everyone in the Harvard community...
...favor the team seeks to curry by preserving tradition with a religious zeal. “Tossing people into the Charles, oftentimes that’s a way of cleansing or purging a wayward soul,” said Kummer. “I’m not a Gaelic pantheist, but Newell is hallowed ground, and the Rio Carlos has a heart of implacability. As such, the LP often has to sate the river’s appetite with refractory lightweights. Her appetite, like that of a lightweight oarsman, broils at all hours...
Immediately after the Gaelic name of the castle trips clumsily off everyone’s tongue, Audrey and Daniel must leave for Ireland to depose the staff and absorb the breathtaking vistas. After imbibing a little too much of local flavor, the couple wakes up in bed together sporting makeshift wedding rings and the totally improbable belief that whatever they did to get those wedding rings is somehow legally binding. When they return to New York and the prying eyes of the New York tabloid press, they fake being married lest their careers suffer. They fake it til they make...