Word: gaelicism
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Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care...
...Titillating is the presence in the U. S. of famed "Gaelic Sage" George William Russell, poet, painter, mystic, essayist economist, and editor of the Irish Statesman, who has intrigued many by his pseudonym...
...authentic co-leader with William Butler Yeats of the "Gaelic Renaissance," Sage Russell, now lecturing throughout the U. S., commands respect for the following judgment: ". . . The first phase of great civilization is that of mastery of the plastic and material arts. America is now passing through this phase: witness her buildings that scrape the skies, rails thrown across a continent. Your next phase will be literature. I believe a gigantic literature...
Alighting at Leinster House (Parliament), His Excellency soon stood respectfully in the presence of Free State Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy who solemnly administered the Governor General's oath of office in both English and Gaelic. Thereafter unassuming Governor & Mrs. Mc-Neill quietly took up their residence in Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the Vice-regal Lodge...
...writer he is often criticized as one whose natural vein of mysticism has made him a Platonist, responsive to the mystic vein of Gaelic literature. Richness, sympathy, and mysticism are the chief marks of his lyric poetry, and appear also in his prose-drama on Irish tradition, "Deirdre". He is also a sympathetic and imaginative critic. Deeply interested in the social and political problems of Ireland, he has written and done much for his country in this connection. At one time he was the editor of The Irish Statesman...