Word: gaelicism
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Before he thought of writing plays, or had a spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers...
...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...
Greying Spencer Tracy, not equipped with a memorial role, gives no more than a mediocre presentation of his copy-righted role as a Gaelic and crusading, if mixed-up, newspaperman...
When the counting ended, the Taoiseach (Gaelic for Prime Minister; pronounced tee shock) and his Fianna Fail had a clear margin of 14 seats in the Dail instead of a deficit of four. Even if all other parties voted solidly against him, De Valera could win on any foreseeable issue. Now he had what he had demanded: power to match his responsibility...
...Duke of Argyll, 72-year-old, 20-titled, elf-seeing, Gaelic-speaking laird of Inveraray, Scotland, received in absentia a court admonition (public reproof carrying no fine or sentence). The trouble started when 79-year-old Town Clerk Robert Sutherland Corrigall stopped by with some Department of Health recommendations for cleaning up the ducal estate. His crusty Lordship listened carefully, politely shook hands, then gave his caller a good caning followed by an offer to throw him in nearby Loch Fyne. The Duke refused to appear in court, sent word that, after seven weeks of reflection, he had apologized...