Word: gaelicism
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...Perfect Girl" and head of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, and Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, amateur boxer, R. A. F. officer, and youngest son of the Premier Peer of Scotland: their first child, a boy. Weight: 9 Ibs. Prospective name: Diarmaid (pronounced Dermod), Gaelic for Dermot...
George Russell, William Butler Yeats and Standish O'Grady had led a new literary revival. The Irish theatre had blossomed. Irish journalism had come out of hiding. In 1893 a Gaelic League had begun to revive the use of the Irish language and the traditional dances and music of Ireland. An early member was Eamon de Valera...
...Explaining to businessmen that he had meant no offense in criticizing the university for spending money to teach Gaelic) I'm for the Irish, God bless them. They should have all the education they need...
Irishmen hailed the bounding green silks of Tim Hyde with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...