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After the executions a thousand angry demonstrators carried black flags with skull and cross bones through Dublin's streets. They tried to storm the British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...
...that he could later be shot. Whether or not Richards and Barnes would measure up to the martyrs on this list, the fact was that the 700-year-old Irish hatred for Britain was again sorely inflamed. Best expression of Irish feeling came in a resolution by the Dublin committee which worked for the prisoners' reprieve: "Whatever may be said, the ultimate cause of their deaths is the aggression of England against Ireland...
...Nation appeared in Manhattan. Founder and editor was a shy, 33-year-old, Irish Presbyterian, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, who had emigrated to the U. S. nine years earlier. His associate editor, Wendell Phillips Garrison, was the son of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The Nation (named after a fiery Dublin weekly) announced that its purpose was to defend "free inquiry and free endeavor...
...general outlines of Joyce's life and many of the particulars are already well and widely known : the years of his youth in Dublin, the years of his exile in Paris, in Zurich, in Trieste, in Rome, again in Paris; his agonizing poverty during year after early year; the years of almost in conceivable misuse at the hands of publishers and, in his case, of printers; the horrifying succession of attacks on his eyes; his relief at length, thanks to Miss Harriet Weaver, from financial worry; the 34 years of unprecedented work he has done in the teeth...
...Joyce's own writing the book contains, among other things: several of his letters to English Publisher Grant Richards over Dubliners-as shriveling a statement of the artist-publisher situation as has ever seen print; an extraordinarily beautiful letter he wrote to Ibsen when he was 19; two invective poems which suggest Swift's and are quite as good. One of them, addressed to the Dublin littérateurs he held in such contempt, ends with these proud lines...