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...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...
Agile young noblemen at Oxford, bandy-legged Scotsmen, savage Welshmen, bounding hooligans in Dublin sandlots, to say nothing of Germans, Frenchmen, Poles, and European Hebrews, play the game of soccer. American college boys play it too, but they rarely go out to watch it, and the crowd of 46,000 that gathered in the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, last week, to see the Hakoah (Jewish) soccer team from Vienna play a team (Irish) recruited from the New York Giants and the Indiana Flooring Co., was the largest crowd that had ever watched a soccer game...
Therefore Mr. De Valera last week launched a new and as yet unnamed Irish party at Dublin. Said he to former Sinn Feiners who have "bolted" with him: "Let our keynote be abolition of the Oath of Fealty.** The ideal of the majority of the Irish people is still broadly a Republican ideal. . . . Ireland should be united, free and Irish. . . . The people can be banded together for the pursuit of that ideal if a reasonable program, based on existing conditions, is set before them...
Meanwhile Miss Gibson's large deposits at an English bank in Rome were sequestered according to Italian law. Late in the week Lord Ashbourne arrived at Rome from Dublin, and retained Deputy Enrico Ferri, "the Italian Clarence Darrow," to defend his sister...
disgrace. I offer all my wishes for the preservation of your life." Lord Ashbourne* cabled from Dublin: "Miss Gibson's family regret the incident and express profound sympathy...