Word: eireann
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...slow perusal of race horses, the thoughtful consumption of stout, and weighty disputation in rich, foamy periods that make English English seem like verbal porridge. Ireland's traditional shanachies, its Gaelic storytellers, still spin their grave tales in the western counties, and of late have also favored Radio Eireann with their...
...political style, a member of the generation that freed Ireland and has ruled it ever since. At school, he learned his four Rs-in the Dublin of 50 years ago, revolution was part of the curriculum-and by the age of 14 had joined the Republican Na Fianna Eireann, a sort of Boy Scout underground. Two years later, when the Irish Republican Army occupied the Dublin post office at the start of the botched 1916 Easter Week rising, Sean was the youngest rebel of them all, spent four days on the roof with a rifle, waiting for the British...
...baffled inspector passed on his problem to Dublin, and at week's end a representative from the Dail Eireann was hurrying westward. "It's serious enough," he told newsmen, "for there isn't a man on the peninsula who doesn't believe in the little people. But I think if we build the fence around the rath, it might satisfy everyone." A second civil servant was not so sure. "It's bad enough giving the fairies official recognition," he grumbled. "The next thing, they'll be coming in here looking for pensions...
Meantime, there was only one thing for a good Irishman to do-place his bets. Sweepstakes were flourishing in every office in Eire last week, and Radio-Eireann, the state broadcasting company, which had timidly refused to air political speeches of any kind, was offering a fat cash prize to the best picker...
Deputy Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins, the doughty man, rose in the Dail Eireann last week to complain that Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had called the Opposition "cubs...