Four-Dimensional Green Fields – Frank McNally on unified field theory, de Valera’s Ireland, and a new GAA club in Belfast
It was in 1969, on a question almost as obscure as unified field theory. So the diarist went digging and returned to say that the Hungarian school was run by “Cistercians of the Common Observance”, a non-Trappist branch of the older order. In the other, ideas about unified field theory were dominated by the question of how we might get the fourth green one back from Britain. And this, it seems to me, carries a faint if unintended echo of another GAA tradition: naming clubs after Irish patriots. Even so, I hereby predict that the new club will be become known elsewhere as the “Harland and Wolff Tones”.
Source: The Irish Times July 17, 2020 18:00 UTC
