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...Bombed and the Unbombed. Elsewhere the comment varied too. In much-bombed Malta, under chalked up exhortations to "Bomb Rome," joyful Maltese scrawled: "Thanks." In bomb-ridden Chungking the Catholic Social Welfare exhorted Italians to "wake up and live." In unbombed Dublin Eamon de Valera's Irish Press thought the bombs would "sadden many." London's official attitude was: "regretful, yes; apologetic, no." Unofficial London: "It's about time." Madrid and Lisbon were noncommittal, Rio de Janeiro generally approved; Buenos Aires frowned...
Wrote William Butler Yeats of Dublin after the Easter Rising...
Everybody in Eire was sure that nobody in Eire wanted last week's general election. But the constitution grants the Dail five years of life, a tenure now up. So the electors, from Donegal to Dublin, walked or jaunted to the polls in every schoolhouse, where those officials known as personation agents checked to see that the living did not vote twice or more, or the dead even once...
Schrödinger has a way with him. His soft, cheerful speech, his whimsical smile are engaging. And Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...
...left his professorship at University of Berlin in 1933 for four years at Oxford, thence went to Graz in Austria, finally to Dublin...