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...College, is currently engaged in translating his latest novel from Gaelic into English. He wrote the book (Mary McCartan in Gaelic as part of a strong movement in Ireland to preserve the Gaelic language, a movement which is supported by almost all Irish writers of today, including Brendan Behan, Liam O'Flaherty, Michael MacLiammhoir and others. All of these writers have produced works in Gaelic, and some write only in Gaelic. In addition to native Irish literature, quite a large amount of literature from other countries has been translated into Gaelic...
...Among them: Poets William Butler Yeats (who was an I.R.A. "morale officer") and Oliver St. John Gogarty; Playwrights Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan; Novelists Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor...
Long written off as one of the least lively members of the lusty clan founded by his "Commodore" grandfather, the late Philanthropist-Yachtsman Frederick Wil liam Vanderbilt (1856-1938) was coming in for some posthumous reappraisal. In the process of renovating Vanderbilt's 211-acre Hyde Park, N.Y., estate, now maintained by the National Park Service, workmen uncovered a 30-ft.-wide ceiling mural depicting bare-breasted nymphs gamboling around an old man with his head in his hand. Reportedly painted over on curt instructions from Vanderbilt's wife, the mural will henceforth be left unwhitewashed for what...
Ireland, said Sheridan, is the land of happy wars and sad love songs. So we are informed, at any rate, by one of the singers on a Columbia album called "A SPONTANEOUS RECORDING!" The spontaneous performance is given by the Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, and Liam), Tommy Makem, Pete Seeger (on banjo), Bruce Langhorne (on guitar), and what is described as "a 200-voice singing audience." The audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change...
Some 500 guests converged on the White House at week's end to meet the two nieces of Mamie Eisenhower at the first coming-out party to be held in the executive mansion since 1910. The previous occasion: the debut of President Wil liam Howard Taft's daughter Helen. The cream of official Washington society, in what is likely to be Mamie's swan song as White House hostess, met Ellen Moore, 19, and Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 18, daughters of the First Lady's sister, M. (for Mabel) Frances Moore. Reminiscing about her own White House...