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...gone in & out of air-raid shelters, hospitals, airplane factories, chemical works, pubs (in one, when he bought beer for the soldiers, the proprietor broke out a bottle of champagne he had been saving for the Armistice). On the eve of his return he flew unexpectedly to Dublin to lunch with Prime Minister De Valera and the Cabinet Members of Eire; in a message to Germany he spoke as an American of German descent who opposed everything that Hitler stood for. Everywhere his reception was tumultuous, enthusiastic, unvaried. The tributes ranged from the London Times ("Everywhere and with everyone...
Engaged. Emer De Valera, second daughter of Eire's Premier Eamon De Valera, student at University College, Dublin, and a whiz in languages; and Brian Ocuiv, also a student at University College; in Dublin...
Tanyard Street (by Louis D'Alton, produced by Jack Kirkland). In this solemn drama by one of Dublin's Abbey Theatre playwrights, an ardent young Irish Catholic comes home paralyzed after fighting for Franco. One night a bouquet of flowers is mysteriously moved from his bedroom shrine to his bed, and the next morning he is suddenly well. The cure is hailed as a miracle. Thereupon the young man decides to renounce his wife for the priesthood, and she agrees to take the vow of chastity which will allow him to do it, even though...
From Minister for Supplies Sean F. Lemass fortnight ago Eire got some very straight and very bad news. Coming at a time when official Dublin buzzed with the report that Sean Russell, the old jailbird head of the long suppressed, British-hating Irish Republican Army, was in Berlin, his words carried an ominous significance. Said he: "Rights alone are poor protection for small states when great empires go to war. Within a few weeks or a few months a crisis will come, and with it the greatest danger to our nation...
...Eire, when Prime Minister Eamon de Valera banned The Great Dictator, a Belfast theatre (in Northern Ireland) tried to advertise the film in Dublin newspapers, with a schedule of train service to Belfast. Eire's censors promptly killed...