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...thoughts are subjected to no rules . . . I can fly backwards and forwards in time and space." With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist. Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty, takes off on the umpteenth lap of his favorite circuit-Dublin in the first decades of the century...
Stately Buck Mulligan. Son of a Dublin physician, Oliver Gogarty finished his education at three universities-Oxford, and Dublin's Trinity College and Royal. He left Oxford a hero-the only undergraduate, he reports, who had ever drained at a draught the famed silver ale sconce of Worcester College (contents: "more than five pints"). Trinity College made a racing cyclist and physician of him, but the Royal gave him his chief claim to fame by bringing him in contact with an unknown student named James Joyce...
...talking about the Republic of Ireland alone and deliberately excluding Northern Ireland, which does not mind talking English. The Republic of Ireland, on the other hand, prefers to ignore the fact that it is not also the government of Northern Ireland. Make McGuire "Ambassador to Ireland," said Dublin to Canberra, and all would be well...
...visit to Canberra, that would never do. How, suggested the Australian government, about "Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland," or even "Ambassador to President Sean T. O'Ceallaigh," just as the British themselves do it, spelling O'Kelly in the Gaelic way? No, said Dublin firmly, it would have to be "Ireland" or nothing...
Last week, after nine months of diplomatic haggling, Australia abandoned all attempts to send an ambassador to Dublin. It did seem a shame, admitted one Irishman, with the man's name McGuire...