In Ireland, the Gaelic League was established in 1893 to promote a strong sense of national identity and preserve the Irish language. Administrative and legal work is done in Irish, and the language is taught to all primary school students alongside English. Use of the language fell out of fa...
“Every aspect of Dublin’s battles have been recorded somehow by Gordon Lewis, Pathe’s intrepid photographer of the Irish portion of the Gazette,” the Freeman writer concluded, “little details in the series Dublin is to see to-day prove their absolute under-fire authenticity.” It was Lew...
there isSiegfried, the Germanic hero in the Nibelungenlied who was vulnerable only between his shoulder blades; the Ossetian warrior Soslan or Sosruko from the Nart Saga who is dipped by a blacksmith into alternating water and fire to turn him into metal but missed his legs; and the Celtic ...
Vanirar Corvusson- Norn Necromancer - Vanir are Earth or nature gods in Norse mythology, rar is a name suffix I found on a site about Norse names which apparently means 'warrior', Corvus is the genus name for ravens, crows, magpies and numerous other birds and son is, well, son of. ...
Lucy E. Salyer, Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship, Cambridge and London: ... courthouse, what transpired was not at all what lawmakers had intended. Black petitioners looked more like rights-bearing people than...
People's Candidate, Demagogue, Fenian Spouter; or whoever you may be, professing to know aught or do anything in matters of policy, consider, what I am sure you have never fairly weighed, the condition of a man whose clearest notion of Government is derived from the Police! Imagine one ...
The pleasant chieftain of the musical [Fenian] Branch Chorus-- The youngest man (U.S. born), promoted to Brigadier General, isGalusha Pennypacker, in March 1865 (one month before the Civil War ended), at age 21. TheMarquis de Layfayettewas promoted to Brigadier General at age 19, but ...
As part of this process, we also begin to build up a personal collection of items from another area of the linguistic field, that is, quotations, less likely to be recognized by compilers of traditional dictionaries. Some of these will come from a general stock to which most people have ...