Word: ballybay
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...McMahon, born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, used the word "apparently" with Irish adroitness. He knew that the cotton mills, if they went on piling up a surplus, would soon have to shut down altogether, that General Johnson's order was really a means of spreading work and pay with minimum hardships to labor. As a matter of strategy he protested the order to offer a substitute: reduction of working hours from 40 to 30 per week and a proportionate increase in pay. Next he made a tactical retreat from his own substitute to take up a winning position which...
...counties, came into town with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing...