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Addressing his audience on "Some Personalities of the Irish Literary Movement," George William Russell of Dublin, Ireland, wil give a lecture Friday at 4.30 o'clock in Room D, Emerson Hall...
...Mayor Thompson would be an effective member of his cabinet, if he were in it, Mayor Thompson on his side told of the plans of the Thompson family, controlling the waterways from the Great Lakes to the ocean, to the end that freight might be shipped between Chicago and Dublin for seven dollars a ton. To top off the felicities, "Bathouse John" Coughlin, dean of the Chicago Aldermen, on behalf of the members of the City Council, presented President Cosgrave with a testimonial of greeting...
...child, he studiously attended the strict Christian Brothers' schools in Dublin. A boy, he clerked over groceries. A youth, he espoused the passionate and patriotic doctrines of Sinn Fein. A man, he combined steady, profitable attention to business with such tireless subversion against the British that in 1916 he was sentenced to death, and only escaped under the general amnesty...
This destiny drew nigh when President Arthur Griffith of the Provisional Government found himself obliged to go to London in the summer of 1922, and appointed as his deputy in Dublin his warm personal friend William Thomas Cosgrave. On Aug. 12 President Griffith died. Ten days later the Government was further smitten by the assassination of its next most prominent leader, Michael Collins. With Griffith and Collins dead, the presidential toga descended upon Mr. Cosgrave, and he was formally elected President...
Tart-tongued Timothy Michael Healy, now retiring as Governor General of the Irish Free State (TIME Dec. 26), sat with suspicious placidness, last week, through a long farewell dinner in his honor at Dublin...