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Viking implements from a Norse cemetery near Dublin date from 850 to 1000 A.D. A set of scales, made of white metal and bronze, still retains its fragile supporting wires. A sword of the same period shows the name of its German maker on its handle...
...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...
...exhibition contains nearly one hundred objects dating back as early as 1500 B.C. belonging to the Irish National Museum, Royal Irish Academy. Royal Dublin Society and the Bank of Ireland. This is one of the most comprehensive Irish exhibits ever displayed in this area...
Panicky emergency measures by the De Valera Government banned street and place signs visible from trains, cars or low-flying planes, dimmed already shaded street lights in Dublin, which Britain declared were being used by Nazi raiders as guiding beacons...
Died. Frederick Robert Higgins, 44, dark, Gaelic-loving Irish poet (Salt Air, Arable Holdings), since 1935 managing director of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre; in Dublin. On a Manhattan visit three years ago, Poet Higgins "found the stage in New York pitiful, contemptible-and what is worse, anemic...