Word: dublins
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...performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported from Dublin, was no sedative...
When The Plough and the Stars, by Sean O'Casey, a hodcarrier, was given in Dublin there were more screams of libel, more bloody noses. The play tells of the Easter rebellion of 1916 when English machine guns shot holes in a fiery burst for Irish freedom. Some of the characters are patriots; some of them are drunken philosophers; one is a chubby prostitute in scarlet silk. The story tells the stark sorrow of a young bride whose patriot husband dies from the bite of English bullets. She loses her baby; loses her mind...
...Louis Israel Dublin, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. had said: "Beginning with 1920 there has been a continuous and marked rise in the number of deaths resulting from the use of alcohol. . . . The quality of liquor used throughout the country is sufficiently bad to make up for the smaller quantity consumed. . . . We may summarize our findings as follows: that the Prohibition period is characterized by sharply declining mortality rates among children and adolescents of both sexes, and that this decline is continued over a number of additional age periods among women. The improvement is retarded among young male adults...
...week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...Irish Free State was the arena of a nation-wide battle. The weapons were ballot papers, with an odd revolver and a shillalah or two for emphasis; political armies fought for the control of the Dublin executive machinery...