Word: dublins
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...ante) goes into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, he asked the Dail to vote de facto recognition by the Irish Free...
...premeditated desire to suppress the facts. Indeed, President Eliot, started quite a renaissance in Irish culture, and brought to Harvard a number of prominent students, among them Professor Fred N. Robinson 91, whose tireless research in old Celtic was awarded last year with a degree from the University of Dublin. This work has been steadily carried on, although in comparative secrecy. The archeological expedition that has been at work in Ireland for the last four years under the direction of Hugh Hencken '31, of the Peabody Muscum, is just one of the things that make Ireland friendly to Harvard...
...having his way. Few weeks ago he published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium' [accepted name for the double-weight hydrogen atom] is correctly formed from the Greek deuteros, 'second,' but the Greek for 'third...
...late enough in this period to give him a running jump into the more stirring times that followed was Tom Moore, a short, bouncing, dandiacal Irish poet, whose life and work expressed the age's contradictions perhaps as well as any man's. Son of a prosperous Dublin greengrocer, he was schooled at Trinity College, where he was a classmate and familiar of the great Robert Emmet, was involved with him in such seditious pranks that the pair escaped arrest and imprisonment only by the narrowest of margins. It was not until Moore had settled in England, some...
...Oriental tribesmen and their passions, testified indirectly to a revival of his libertarianism and brought him his greatest contemporary success, he outlived his fame. Harassed by financial difficulties, weakened mentally in his last years, he died in 1852. A statue, raised to his memory by popular subscription in Dublin, turned out after its erection to have been cast in inferior metal, soon rusted ignobly in the Irish rains...