Word: donegall
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Diamond Thought. On a white horse, wearing a green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords'...
Twas a saucy business surely, and one that, in an older time, might well have put County Donegal up in arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that...
Then at last the duke gets up, after eating three eggs with his steak. "Cheerio," he says. "We had a nice meal," he says. And what do the Irish do? As the Archangel Michael's a witness, they cheer. Cheer themselves hoarse, they do, which produces such a parching...
But after seven anxious years, the Bel was barely swinging. Import restrictions had shrunk its British market. To square garrulous Editor Peadar O'Donnell, one time schoolmaster in County Donegal there seemed but one way out. He would go to the U.S. and raise some money.
In the Palmer House's gold-laced Empire Room, Chicago's Irish have been crowding in nightly to hear cocky Tenor Regan sing Paddy McGinty's Goat, The Toorie on His Bonnet, and Dear Old Donegal. Warming their Irish faces at the front tables with Illinois'...