Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door of Dublin's General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
...from the genteel and "very private" school in the Irish countryside, where he was loafing happily, and enrolled in Dublin's cheaper Central Model Boys' School, whose students were largely Catholic sons of "petty shopkeepers." Overnight, Shaw, who had been baptized in the Protestant Episcopal Church of Ireland, became "a boy with whom no Protestant young gentleman would speak or play," and he burned with "a shame which was more or less a psychosis...
...every passerby for a sausage. These students, istead of being able to spend 16 to 18 hours a day on their work, are forced to employ all of their time in roaming Cambridge to beg for a pittance of flesh. Countries ago, in 1729, a similar food shortage gripped Ireland, and Joha than Swift offered a plausible and efficient solution. Unfortunately, civilization was not sufficiently advanced to recognize the wisdom of his plan...
...student going to France is permitted to carry 20,000 French francs, but a traveller entering Belgium is allowed unlimited amounts in Belgian francs. a tourist going to Ireland can carry unlimited amounts of Irish currency, but only five pounds in English money; yet both currencies circulate in Ireland with equal value...
...Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders) 2.6 4 Spain (pesetas) 10.5 31 Switzerland (francs) 4.28 3.98 Countries In the Sterling Block England (pound) $4.03 1/2 $3.35 Ireland (pound) 4.05 3.60 Egypt (pound) 4.15 2.80 S. Africa (pound) 4.03 1/2 3.25 India (rupee...