Word: dev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dev and Cuff have had a fight...
...they say Dev put out the light...
...Dev is Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class...
These circumstances, and the great grey circumstance of Belfast itself, where the Catholic Irish tread with resentful circumspection amid the Protestant majority, compose the theater for Dev's tragedy. He is more vulnerable to scandal than an English princess when Cuff's young niece arrives from Dublin. Soon there is talk about Una and Dev. Love leads him to desperate measures: he buys a Tattersall waistcoat and takes dancing lessons. One awful night the high-spirited Una finds the answer to the question: "Where can we go on Sunday in Belfast?" She goes with Dev to his basement...
...venerable Dev is half-blind and not the man he used to be, but he is still Ireland's best-known politician. He was a world figure when Dwight Eisenhower was an unknown Army major, served as president of the League of Nations when Richard Nixon was an undergraduate at Whittier College. Dev, who has been Prime Minister of his fledgling republic for a total of 19 years, is the only surviving commandant of the legendary Easter Rebellion of 1916. In those feverish days he was saved from execution only by British fears of U.S. reaction (Dev was born...