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...Dublin, Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera told Parliament that he and other members of his government had turned down invitations to a Coronation Day garden party at the British embassy for obvious reasons: the title, Queen Elizabeth II "of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," was "unnecessarily and deliberately linked up by the British government with the partition of our country...
...noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race at the Kilbeggan Meeting. While the cheering track crowd shouted, "Good old Alec McCann" (Aly's local nickname), Gene burbled, "Cheri, you were wonderful." The Kilcullen villagers watched...
...realized that his, like all good poetry, should be read aloud: "Take breath and read it with the ears . . . and my verse comes all right." As a Jesuit priest, Hopkins held down half a dozen posts before being assigned, in the last years of his life, to Dublin's University College as professor of Greek...
...Dublin. As he went ashore on a naval launch from the liner America, he was greeted by pealing church bells and flocks of flag-waving moppets. Ambassador Taft picked up Sean, his own Dublin-born, three-year-old boy, for the crowd to see and said, "You're home again...
Last week, in a rambling, old-world mansion outside Dublin, old and grey and full of sleep, Maud Gonne died...