Word: gaelicism
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...Michael Donnellan's Farmers Party won 14 seats, a gain of twelve. The Farmers and their gaunt, roughly garbed, ex-Gaelic-football-star boss scored the surprise of the election...
Schrödinger has a way with him. His soft, cheerful speech, his whimsical smile are engaging. And Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...
...weird, neutral land of Ireland was in a stew about censorship last week. The censorship had nothing to do with the war. A farmer had complained to Eire's Book Censorship Bureau that he had found his daughter reading The Tailor and Anstey, a translation from the Gaelic of free-style conversation between an old Cork peasant and his wife. The Bureau (four professors, one a Catholic priest) promptly banned the book...
Ever since it became apparent that Lewis, when he relinquished the C.I.O. presidency, did not intend to give up control of C.I.O., Murray's indignation has been deepening. Lewis' "peace plan," a surprise to Murray, was the last straw. With cold, Gaelic anger, Murray told his old boss that it was Philip Murray, not John Lewis, who was boss of C.I.O...
Died. William Gibson, Lord Ashbourne. 73, lifelong foe of the use of English language or dress in Ireland; in Compiegne, France. He wore Irish kilts in the House of Lords, wrote and talked chiefly in Gaelic and French, believed the habitual use of English deformed the mouth. His sister, Violet, out of her head, shot at Benito Mussolini...