Word: gaelics
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...galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair and dark eyes of Spaniards...
...Blaskets got their name from the Gaelic word blascaod, which means, literally, "whale-backed island...
...annual dinner of the Dublin Society of New York. As guest of honor they had a clergyman with them, a learned fellow Dubliner who came to the U.S. just three years ago. Declaimed Toastmaster Terry Long: "This man of God is a native of Dublin, a fluent Gaelic speaker and an authority on Irish folklore. In these days of stress, when we see men turning against their fellow man because of race or color, it is heartening to see among us a man of a race that is one of the oldest and most cultured in the world." The guest...
Young Fingertips. Finding reason enough for their lives in the ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held...
...Jamie McRuin, a strapping young Irishman who is saved from certain death by the legendary Fairy Queen. After plucking him out of a raging stream, she offers him three wishes. He chooses to travel, to marry a beautiful woman, and to have a son who will speak the old (Gaelic) language. In the course of two acts, nineteen scenes, the wishes are fulfilled...