Some noteless Gaelic poet had made this into a forgotten ballad, some odd verses of which my white-capped friend remembered and sang for me.

Most of all, Gary Cotter loved his kids, his grandkids, and Gail, his wife of 37 years.

Victor Niederhoffer and his first wife, Gail, divorced after the birth of Galt and her sister Katie; he went on to have four more daughters with his second wife, Susan.

Away to the north of Ben Bulben and Cope’s mountain lives “a strong farmer, ” a knight of the sheep they would have called him in the Gaelic days.

An American has far better access today than ever before to texts in German or Polish or Gaelic.