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...only other woman who has been elected to a seat in the British Parliament is the Countess Markie-vicz, Irish Republican, chosen by a Dublin political division; but she, like all the rest of the Sinn Feiners, refused to take her seat...
...DUBLIN DAYS?L. A. G. Strong? Boni and Liveright ($1.25). A small and pleasant posy of Irish herbs and flowers?poems lacking the conventional oh-so-damn-Gaelic concern with the Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles. Uncle White Seagull and the rest of the melancholy paraphernalia of minor Irish bards. It is evident that the author has read James Stephens, but he has his own individual way of speaking, clear, fresh and cool as the sound of a country brook. Poems for even a reviewer to keep and reread...
...public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...
Augustus St. Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1848. After study in Paris and Rome, he opened a studio in New York in 1872. At his death in 1907 the statue of Lincoln was boxed up and put away in a basement. Trustees for a $100,000 fund, which was to provide for the erection of this statue in Chicago forgot the statue and also died...
...educated at the College of the Immaculate Conception, Athlone, and at Queen's College, Galway, where he took the degree of M. A. with the highest honors. After leaving college he took to newspaper work and has stuck to it ever since. He started work on Sounders' Newsletter in Dublin, migrated to London and worked on The Telegraph. For a time he was connected with the London branch of The New York Herald. On his own account he founded and was the first editor of The Star, The Sun, The Weekly Sun, M. A. P. and T. P.'s Weekly...