Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense, the papers had been on their way to New Haven for 23 years, ever since Ralph H. Isham (Yale '14) first heard of them. One batch had been uncovered in Ireland's Malahide Castle in 1927, another in Scotland. Isham bought the Malahide papers, and after years of dickering acquired the rest. Scholars hailed them as the greatest literary find of the century...
...Faolain (pronounced O'Fay-lawn), a great test of the Irish came in the Middle Ages when Ireland tried to graft monastic learning on to the old Celtic sense of the supernatural. For a while Ireland seemed to be evolving a great world culture-what Arnold Toynbee has called the "abortive western Celtic civilization." The new culture languished (because, O'Faolain makes plain, the Irish Celts were and always have been recalcitrant to the point of laziness), though the wild memory of it persisted, caught in such songs as Yeats...
Died. Dr. Douglas Hyde, 88, first President (1938-45) of Ireland (Eire), Gaelic scholar, poet and playwright who was nicknamed "An Craoibhin Aoibhinn" (The Delightful Little Branch)*; after long illness; in Dublin...
Comedian Danny Kaye had a prominent role in a real-life melodrama. He was aboard a transatlantic airliner, 600 miles off Ireland, when one of its engines caught fire and a propeller fell off. While the plane lost altitude, Danny and 53 fellow passengers put on life jackets. Turning back, the plane managed to reach Shannon, and Danny got into comedy again: "I can swim," he cracked, "but not 600 miles...
...storytellers could top the one Ireland's Harry Bradshaw, 35, former Irish Open golf champion, could tell last week. It happened to him at Sandwich, England, in the second round of the British Open championship...