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Word: seamus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Hedreen's painful shin splints allow, he will open at center forward, where his cool play-making should aid the Crimson greatly. Tadhg Sweeney, the left inside if Hedreen starts, will play center otherwise, and Seamus Malin will then fill in at inside. Right inside John Mudd is a valuable aggressive performer...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team to Face Elis In Key Contest of Eastern Season | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about an old man cradling a newborn baby he half suspected was "none of his own." Lomax tracked the song to County Cork, where the old people sang it in Gaelic, calling it simply "the oldest song." Why? "Because that was the lullaby Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Folk | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...sombre note was introduced with the playing of a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading a number of his poems about death, Seamus O'Neill, an Irish poet, read three of his poems that had been translated from the Gaelic, noting, "it puzzles me that people who have no knowledge of Irish history are still interested in it." Mr. Chaney then called the Fugitive movement "the greatest philosophical meetings" of his life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fugitive Poets Bring South to Harvard | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...final speaker of the European group was Seamus O'Neill, professor at Dublin University, Ireland, who argued that modern poetry in Ireland has flourished even since the death of W.B. Yeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Delegates from Two Hemispheres Review Literature, Changing Values | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

Juno and the Paycock (Angel, 2 LPs). With a foreword by Playwright Sean O'Casey, one of the century's great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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