Word: hibernians
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Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...
When Edmund Gilligan is at his best, as in White Sails Crowding, he is one of few men living who can galvanize the dying art of literate romancing. But in The Gaunt Woman his Hibernian lilt and lustiness often overshoot the mark. Like most Irish storytellers, he must beware of riding with his Erse too high...
...esthetic Dial's editorial staff. Since the Dial's demise in 1929, Miss Moore has picked up a microscopic living from her writings, for the last twelve years has lived a sequestered life in her mother's Brooklyn flat. Though she looks somewhat like an unreconstructed Hibernian, she is as American as a buffalo...
...Nobel Prizewinner, he skirmished on loyally for the literary cause, won for the Abbey a national subsidy, and founded, with George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Academy of Letters. He was 70 before he received his first friendly public tribute from his countrymen-a birthday dinner at Dublin's Hibernian Hotel. Members of all factions were present. All found it impossible not to cheer their heads...
...Hibernian labor organizer, speaking on a program sponsored by the Harvard Peace Rally Committee, declaimed against the British imperialism which holds sway in India, South Africa, and Egypt as well as Ireland...