Popular Culture
In the City of Heroes universe, a faction called "Fir Bolg" battles a faction named Tuatha Dé Danann based on the Irish history, although not in human form. Redcaps, mischievous fae creatures resurrect the Fir Bolg as flaming animated pumpkin plants, and the Tuatha as werewolf-like creatures with antlers and goat's legs.
In the Warcraft universe, the name of an ursine neutral race was a furbolg.
In the AD&D Universe, the firbolgs are a race of giants.
In the Myth (series) universe, the fir'Bolg are a muscular and hardy woodsmen race skilled in archery.
In the Dark Age Of Camelot universe, the firbolg (or Fir'bolg) is a playable race of the hibernian realm, a half man, half giant, known for its strength and size.
In Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, the Tuatha Dé Danann and Fir Bolg are recast as warring aliens from another galaxy inhabiting prehistoric Earth, the "Tanu" and "Firvulag", respectively.
In Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of Ages, the character Grunthor is half Firbolg.
In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the Irish poet Thomas Moore is described by the protagonist Stephen Dedalus as being "a Firbolg in the borrowed cloak of a Milesian.".
In Huntik: Secrets and Seekers Firbolg the fierce giant is the name of one of the creatures known as the Titans that the characters of the series can summon to aid them in battle.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)