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Lomna Quick reference
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
.... Fool of Fionn mac Cumhaill who betrays the adulterous affair of one of his wives and is murdered for his indiscretion by her lover. Later, his severed head speaks at a feast...
Dáire mac Fiachna Quick reference
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...mac Fiachna . Original owner of Donn Cuailnge , the Brown Bull of Cuailnge or Cooley, in Táin Bó Cuailnge [Cattle Raid of Cooley]. After promising Donn Cuailnge to Medb of Connacht , Dáire overheard messengers, drunk at a feast, say he was a fool to hand over the bull. When Dáire then refused, Medb and her armies advanced into Ulster to take Donn Cuailnge by force. In a sense, this otherwise obscure Ulster chief set in motion the war in Ireland's greatest epic. See also FIACHNA MAC DÁIRI , whose catching of the ‘water worm’ leads to Donn...
Whitsun ales Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
...a Lord and Lady, a Fool, and other office-holders to organize and preside over the event. A greenery bower, and morris dancers were also prominent features. The following account summarizes the mock solemnity and humour of a Whitsun ale at Woodstock, Oxfordshire: The Woodstock Whitsun Ale was held every seven years; it began on Holy Thursday, and was carried on the whole of Whitsun week … The day before Holy Thursday the maypole was set up, provided by the Duke of Marlborough, which remained up for the rest of the feast. It was a bare pole ornamented with...
Fenian Cycle Quick reference
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
... [The Colloquy of the Elders]; BRUIDHEAN CHAORTHAINN [The House of the Quicken Trees]; BRUIDHEAN BHEAG NA HALMHAINE [The Little Brawl of the Hill of Allen]; CATH FIONNTRÁGHA [The Battle of Ventry]; CATH GABHRA [The Battle of Gabhair/Gowra]; DUANAIRE FINN [The Poem-Book of Fionn]; EACHTRA AN AMADÁIN MHÓIR [The Adventure of the Great Fool]; EACHTRA BHODAIGH AN CHÓTA LACHTNA [The Adventure of the Churl in the Grey Coat]; FEIS TIGHE CHONÁIN [The Feast at Conán's House]; FOTHA CATHA CHNUCHA [The Cause of the Battle of Cnucha]; MACGNÍMARTHA...
sword dance Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
... plays. In some areas the sword dancers accompanied, or were part of, the groups of farmworkers who carried round a plough at Christmas or Plough Monday , collecting money to be used for a feast or dance, or simply for drink for themselves. Terminology is also confusing—the sword dancers could be called morris dancers, plough stots, mummers, and so on. Some sword dance traditions included a dramatic element in their performance, and these are normally counted as one of the three distinct types of mumming play, in which a character is killed by having the...
Danielpour, Richard (28 Jan 1956) Reference library
Laurie Shulman
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...qnt, 1988; Str Qt no.2 “Shadow Dances,” 1993; Urban Dances II, brass qnt, 1993; Fantasy Variations, vc, pf, 1997; Feast of Fools, bn, str qt, 1998; A Child's Reliquary, pf trio, 1999, orch. 2000; As Night Falls on Barjeantane, vn, pf, 2001; Str Qt no.4 “Apparitions,” 2001 [arr. str, hp, cel/pf, perc, 2003]; Str Qt no.5 (In Search of “La Vita Nuova”), 2004; Troubadours’ Feast, fl, cl, vn, va, vc, pf, 2005; River of Light, vn, pf, 2007; Faces of Guernica, pf trio, 2009; Kaddish, str sxt, 2009 [arr. vn, str, hp, 2011]; Str Qt no.6, “Addio,” 2009; Remembering...
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Doug Duda
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...Gaines, Steven . Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach . New York: Crown Publishers, 2009. Gannon, Michael . Florida, a Short History . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. Posner, Gerald . Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power—a Dispatch from the Beach . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Rieff, David . Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America . Boston: Little, Brown, 1987. Standiford, Les . Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that...
Diemer, Emma Lou (24 Nov 1927) Reference library
J. Michele Edwards
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...of Life, children's chorus, 1970; Geronimo, children's chorus, 1970 I Will Sing of Mercy and Judgment, chorus, pf/org, 1970 [from Anniversary Choruses]; O to Make the Most Jubilant Song (W. Whitman, A. Tennyson), chorus, pf/org, 1970; Why so Pale and Wan? (J. Suckling), chorus, 1971; 3 Madrigals (W. Shakespeare, T. Campion, J. Donne), chorus, pf/org, 1972; O to Praise God Again, chorus, 1972; Jesus, Lover of My Soul, chorus, fl, pf/org, 1974; Laughing Song (W. Blake), chorus, pf 4 hands/pf, 1974 Love is a Sickness, Full of Woes, SAB, 1974; Men Are Fools that...
War and Peace in American Popular Culture Reference library
Paul S. Boyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
...for feasts, it suits for fun, And just as well for fighting. George M. Cohan 's adaptation, “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” introduced in a 1904 Broadway musical, captured the jingoistic mood of the turn of the twentieth century. The World War II film Yankee Doodle Dandy showcased the song in a patriotic production number. “The Ballad of Jane McCrea” recounted the 1777 killing of a New York woman by Wyandot Indians allied with the British. John Vanderlyn commemorated the incident in his 1804 painting The Death of Jane McCrea , an early example of the...
Historical Overview Reference library
Andrew F. Smith, John U. Rees, Rachelle E. Friedman, John U. Rees, Alison Tozzi, Kara Newman, Anne Mendelson, Amy Bentley, Sylvia Lovegren, and Sylvia Lovegren
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.” Soldiers’ Food. Society's idea of the daily food needed for basic sustenance was reflected in the U.S. Army Civil War ration ( 1861–1864 ): … twelve ounces of pork or bacon, or, one pound and four ounces of salt or fresh beef; one pound and six ounces of soft bread or flour, or, one pound of hard bread, or, one pound and four ounces of corn meal; and to every one hundred rations, fifteen pounds of beans or peas, and ten pounds of rice or...
Thomson, Virgil (25 Nov 1896) Reference library
Anthony Tommasini and Richard Jackson
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...pf; The Feast of Love (from Pervigilium veneris, trans. Thomson), Bar, orch, 1964 , arr. with pf, unpubd; From Byron's Don Juan, T, orch, 1967 , unpubd With instruments: 5 Phrases from The Song of Solomon, S, perc, 1926 ; Stabat mater (M. Jacob), S, str qt. 1931 , rev. 1981 , arr. S, str orch, unpubd, arr. 1v, pf, 1960 ; 4 Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion, Mez, cl, va, harp, 1951 , arr. Mez, pf, arr. SATB, pf, 1955 With piano: The Sunflower (W. Blake), 1920 , unpubd; Vernal Equinox (A. Lowell), 1920 , unpubd; 3 Sentences from The Song of Solomon, ...
