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...innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to vote against the Government and force a new election. That is enough for the town's hotelkeeper and political...
...friend to such violence, President de Valera, tall, teacherish and full of ideal?. made in the Dail Eireann last week one of the handsomest apologies ever offered by a chief executive to a mere deputy. Fortnight ago the President had accused Deputy Mulcahy, onetime Free State Defense Minister of going to Glasgow for a secret conference with British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham-an act that would stink of treason to the nose of any Irishman...
...Gold, Etched in Moonlight). Such flattery persuaded the late Darrell Figgis to reveal his identity. A Sinn Féiner, he used to run guns into Ireland from Germany for the Irish Volunteers, was arrested in 1916 following the Dublin insurrection, became a member of the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Parliament). The year after The Return of the Hero was published, his wife shot herself. One year later, Widower Figgis committed suicide. Other books: Children of the Earth, Songs of Acaill, Annals of the Irish Wars...
Like famed Mr. Patrick ("Out-Again-In-Again-Gone-Again") Finnegan, Mr. William T. Cosgrave was in again last week, going again as "President" of the Irish Free State. Few were surprised. Having been defeated by two votes in the Dail Eireann fortnight ago, President Cosgrave had resigned (TIME, April 7), but his chief opponent, long-nosed Eamon de Valera thought so little of his own chances of succeeding Mr. Cosgrave that he did not bother to cancel his present U. S. tour...
Although zealous, Mr. Cosgrave was not immediately conspicuous in a party of zealots. Elected a Deputy of the Dail Eireann, he advanced to cabinet rank in the Provisional Government; but in the spring of 1922 he was still little known to Irishmen. Yet when winter came he was, and is now President of the Irish Free State...