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...Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...
...rector of County Roscommon, Dr. Hyde's academic fame rests on his work for the revival of the Irish language as president of the Gaelic League, on his collections of Celtic folklore and on his authorship of Twisting of the Rope, first Gaelic play produced at Dublin's famed Abbey Theater...
...Devi," "Good old Dev, you've done a fine piece of work," rang out from thousands of Irish throats as the Prime Minister next day sailed up Dublin Bay. Political observers were agreed that "Dev" had come out on the long end of his three months' negotiations with the British. The only Irish demand not granted concerned the union of Eire and the six counties of Protestant Northern Ireland. This was temporarily shelved by de Valera in order 'to gain the other concessions, but it is deemed likely now that, with Anglo-Irish relations on a "good...
...Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week to set in motion his machinery for parliamentary approval of the accord...
...authority existed by which they could be segregated. "Workers' houses . . . would be built smack up against a steel works, a dye plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...