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Died. The Rev. Michael ("The Big Fellow") O'Flanagan, 65, towering one-time leader of the Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...
...strict Catholic upbringing in Dublin and London before he joined the R.A.F. at 17. There was nothing spectacular about him except his flying, and he wanted very little except to be fit and right for that. When he got leave he would got to London and his mother would ask Paddy's girl over from next-door-but-one, and if his kid brother got leave from the Bomber Command at the same time they would have a real party. He scarcely ever took a drink and did not smoke much...
...luxe makeshifts are being employed by other Irish, for Eire faces several acute war-born shortages. Coal and gasoline are so scarce that Irish trains have grown fewer and less predictable than ever; many passenger buses are being discontinued. After a generation of disuse, sailing-boat transports sail again. Dublin streets swarm with hundreds of awkward, new bicycle riders, and Dubliners who own autos have hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring...
Though 450 I.R.A.s are in concentration camps and 153 serving prison sentences, the Saxons and the pro-Saxon Gaels had the devil's own job cutting the "pipeline" connecting Eire with Northern Ireland. Fortnight ago in Dublin they jailed (for seven years) piccolo-playing Anthony Deery, whose piccolo, the peelers found, was strangely mute, being stuffed with code-scribbled cigaret papers...
Poet-Dramatist Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, English professor at Athens University since 1940, turned up safe & sound in Dublin, kept mum about how he got away from Nazi-occupied Greece...