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Each bandsman will wear a large shamrock over the breast pocket of his red uniform jacket, and a large green sign proclaiming "Erin Go Bragh" will be stretched across the row of tubas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will March In Parade Today | 3/17/1955 | See Source »

...Erin Go Bragh. In Cheltenham, England, the court awarded Dorothy Dix $630, agreed that her hairdresser was negligent when he dyed her hair green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Erin Go Bragh! In Cape Town, South Africa, when postwar radio-telephone service to Eire was resumed, nostalgic Don O'Reilly, 51 years away from the Emerald Isle, put in a station-to-station call, instructed a dazed Dublin operator to "Give my love to the purple hills of Wicklow," contentedly hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...bragh days of the Irish Literary Renaissance were as exciting as plum cake -full of such plums as Yeats, A. E., Joyce, J. M. Synge. For some time now the cake has been stale and almost plumless. Last week, however, Irish-hungry readers might bite into two fairly fruity bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Late Plums | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...appearance the Orangeman was short and round-shouldered, with a red fringe of whiskers around his face. He was known for his vocal efforts, particularly Erin-go-Bragh, which he rendered in a peculiarly individual manner, his range being limited to a scale of four or five notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John the Orangeman Catered Expertly to Collegiate Palates in Elegant Eighties--Was Colourful Mascot to Crimson Nines | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

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