Headmasters of Dublin schools last week were vexed, mortified, bewildered. Gaelic is taught in all the Irish Free State's schools, but its cinemas are made in the U. S. At the beginning of every holiday the children leave school well-behaved, Gaelic-speaking young ladies and gentlemen. They return with nasal voices, a vast vocabulary of U. S. slang and little regard for discipline. When given an order by a teacher, instead of a polite "Ta go mait," or "Deanfaid me e," they answer: "I gotcha, boss." Skepticism is not expressed by a simple "Ni...
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