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...rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains and was her darling for 20 years-and then unwraps from his patterned kerchief some songs of his own in the Gaelic that have been "compared very favorably to those of the great Dan Hoyser...
...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...
When Eamonn (Edward) De Valera, Hispano-Gaelic* hothead, resigned from the presidency of Sinn Fein* (TIME, March 22), the world learned with surprise that there are hotter heads than his in the party, that they had voted down "his policies...
Since Baron Byng's term as Governor General expires next September, the occasion celebrated last week was considered an informal farewell to his officers. They opined that Pipe Major John Gillies of the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders well expressed their feelings when he presented a Gaelic sentiment on parchment to Lord and Lady Byng, saying "Nach bu mhaiseach an ni na'n robh thu tighinn thugain an aite bhi ga'r fargail...
...subject announced by Dr. Straton for his annual Jeremiad at Phillips Brooks House tonight bears no less formidable a title than "The Battle Over the Bible". To those who still keep the flavor of their Gaelic ancestry this may seem a delightful topic for a clergyman's address. But to anyone who has a sincere interest either in the church or in religion it is but one more bugle call in the crazed crusade of notoriety seekers who think the troubles of the church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain...