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Your search for: "Padraic Colum"


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    Percy's Monster Talent; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 31, 2010
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...comes from the Turkish word bosh, meaning empty or worthless. Another interesting conjecture, notably by Irish poet Padraic Colum, is that kibosh was based on the Gaelic phrase cie bais, caidhp (an) bhais or caidhpin (an) bhais, meaning cap...
     
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    It'll Come in Handy, Said the President, When Congress Gets out of Line
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 24, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Obama, Barack--Political activity
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Obamas birthplace, Hawaii. The three-set volume of fairytales was written by Irish poet and folklore collector Padraic Colum. It was commissioned by the Hawaiian legislature to trace the myths and legends of the Pacific Ocean islands and write...
     
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    The Contents of Jack B Yeats' Studio Draw [Euro]25k at Auction
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...included one of Yeats address books that lists many of his close friends and contacts such as the poet and playwright Padraic Colum and his author wife Mary in New York, and the writer and poet Patrick Kavanagh. The archive material also features...
     
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    BARACK HAS THE CRAIC; O'Bama Enjoys Pint of the Black Stuff in Village Pub
    Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 24, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...hair malfunction when arriving in windy Dublin - were given a collection of Hawaiian childrens stories by Irish writer Padraic Colum for children, Malia and Sasha. He was also given a hurley stick which he waved around, laughing: "If members of...
     
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    I'll Stick Up for Ireland; OBAMA IN IRELAND TAOISEACH MEETING
    Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 24, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...we will continue to be there." The President was given a collection of Hawaiian childrens stories by Irish writer Padraic Colum as gifts for the Obama children, Malia and Sasha. He was also given a hurley stick, and brandishing it, he joked...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Padraic Colum"

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    Abbey Theatre
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...bought for them by public subscription in 1910. Among dramatists whose works the Abbey Theatre first presented are Padraic Colum, Lennox Robinson, Sean OCasey, and Paul Vincent Carroll. The theater is now in a new building constructed in 1966...
     

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