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...half dozen other possible carps--pointed out by Scottish purists--should be duly noted. First, the accents are botched. Natives of the Western Isles speak without a burr (or in Gaelic), and it is said that the purest English in the world can be heard in Inverness, capital of the highlands. Yet the Bonnie Prince Charlie characters sound like a flock of Glasgow longshoremen...
...services called the Light, the Home, and the Third Program. In addition, each of the six regions of Great Britain (the North, Midlands and West of England; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) has a BBC station that broadcasts local shows, news and sporting events or programs in Welsh and Gaelic...
More aggressively Irish than a swinging shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...
Died. Dr. Douglas Hyde, 88, first President (1938-45) of Ireland (Eire), Gaelic scholar, poet and playwright who was nicknamed "An Craoibhin Aoibhinn" (The Delightful Little Branch)*; after long illness; in Dublin...
...token that they do not recognize partition between Northern Ireland and Eire, the Irish dropped their country's Gaelic name...