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...Northern with Southern Ireland, in 1921 and 1925 South Down elected him their member. Then a private citizen, he was barred both times from crossing the border. Now the head of a neighbor state, he could have made trouble by trying to take his seat. But he stayed in Dublin, calling his election "a gesture against the partitioning of Ireland...
...Grey Dublin shone in brilliant color to two happy housepainters last week. From New York arrived Housepainter Henry Frank to receive a ?30,000 prize from the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes (see p. 17). Pleased indeed was he to learn that the fall of the dollar since the drawing had made his prize worth $20,000 more than he had expected. Gratefully he handed a check for ?1,000 to Sir Joseph Glynn, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, for Dublin's paupers...
...Same day Dublin's Dail took pity upon Housepainter Peadar Cearnaigh (Peter Kearney). Inflamed by the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Peadar Cearnaigh sat down and wrote the words of "The Soldier's Song." As the national anthem of the Irish Free State it brings him great honor. Lately he has demanded royalties for public performances. Royalties he did not receive, but last week the Dail voted him a grant...
...middleaged, married (with a daughter, two sons), well-to-do (he owns a town house, an island and a Norman castle), with an admired position, with such intimates as William Butler Yeats. AE (George Russell). James Stephens. Dr. Gogarty lives sparklingly in Dublin. Once fond of driving his Mercedes at breakneck speeds along Irish lanes, he has now taken to the air. Says he: "It's the only excitement left the middle-aged man except the divorce courts, and it's far more respectable." On his latest visit to Manhattan (last winter) he gave reporters a lively half...
...squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace of swans. A mighty tosspot in his youth, he made a pilgrimage to the top of Featherbed Mountain to restore the snakes to Ireland. When he and Joyce shared a Martello tower near Dublin (Ulysses' opening scene), they protested to the British Admiralty about a warship that interfered with their view, had the ship removed...