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...squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know her folklore) gave unwitting confirmation of disaster. "There's no reply," she said, "they must all be dead in there...
...World (by John Millington Synge; produced by Theatre Inc.) remains, after 40 years, one of the fine things in the modern theater. What seems strange is that 40 years ago it should have been so furiously attacked. Yet the half-whimsical satire of Synge's folk comedy enraged Dublin's patriots as a stab at Ireland, and incensed her puritans by mentioning a woman's "shift."*A few years later, in Manhattan, explosive Irish Americans started a theater riot that ex-President Teddy Roosevelt, seated in a box, aborted by speaking up for the play...
...pleasant one, though it did not catch all the music of the play, or even all the mirth. Actor Meredith's Christy was quite good at its best, but not all of a piece. Comedienne Mildred Natwick got the most liveliness into the play, but it was Dublin's Eithne Dunne-as Pegeen-who most caught The Playboy's spirit...
...Dublin, the 1,230 primary schoolteachers on strike for higher wages since last March (TIME, April i) made the front pages again. Into a Dublin football pitch where Prime Minister de Valera, President Sean O'Kelly and other bigwigs sat watching the All Eire Gaelic Football finals, marched some 100 schoolteachers With banners demanding mediation. The crowd of 80,000 roared delightedly: "Good old teachers." Next day the teachers, joined by some 500 parents, held a huge parade that held up Dublin traffic for an hour, while children chanted "We want school...
...next two days the teachers picketed the Dublin Mansion House, where De Valera's Fianna Fail Party was holding a convention. But Education Minister Thomas Derrig held firm. "The government," he said, "will not be coerced." Prime Minister de Valera threatened to lock out rural teachers who, by giving up a tenth of their salaries, were maintaining the Dublin strikers at nine-tenths of their pre-strike pay level. Stubborn De Valera was so wroth that he was reported pondering a general election on the strike issue...