Word: gaelicism
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Down through the years, they have kept the traditions of their ancestors. They still use oxen to work their farms. Nearly half of them still speak Gaelic. A sign proclaiming "Cead Mile Failte" (a hundred thousand welcomes) greets visitors at Keltic Lodge, famed tourist spot near the entrance to Cape Breton's Highlands National Park...
...Dublin, the 1,230 primary schoolteachers on strike for higher wages since last March (TIME, April i) made the front pages again. Into a Dublin football pitch where Prime Minister de Valera, President Sean O'Kelly and other bigwigs sat watching the All Eire Gaelic Football finals, marched some 100 schoolteachers With banners demanding mediation. The crowd of 80,000 roared delightedly: "Good old teachers." Next day the teachers, joined by some 500 parents, held a huge parade that held up Dublin traffic for an hour, while children chanted "We want school...
...Piobaireachd was anglicized to pibroch in the 18th Century but Gaelic purists still cling to the ancient spelling...
From ancient Scythia, by way of Egypt,Crete and Spain, came the persecuted, wandering children of Gaodhal Glas in search of the Isle of Destiny. "I pray," sang their Gaelic bard Amergin, "that they reach the land of Eirinn, those who are riding upon the great, productive vast sea; that they be distributed upon her plains, her mountains and her valleys...
...ever hear of Protestants. The boy's chief experiences involve neighborhood toughs, his jolly dollop of a grandfather, and his dog, an old party who dies under a cloud (after biting a neighbor's daughter). All concerned murder the king's English, but in a grand, Gaelic manner...