Word: irelander
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...Ireland will be free when the palm and the shamrock are worn together...
This week, as for the first time since 1799 Palm Sunday and St. Patrick's Day came together, there were ominous whispers in Eire that "big events" were in the offing. The outlawed Irish Republican Army was expected to plant a few more bombs in Great Britain. Northern Ireland might blaze with revolt against British rule...
...Easter Monday, 1916, during World War I, a few thousand determined Irishmen decided that "Britain's extremity is Ireland's opportunity" and thought the time ripe for revolt. As a popular rising, the Easter Rebellion was a decided flop. In only four of the country's 32 counties did Irishmen take to arms. Only one small but aggressive group of people took part in it. The majority of Irishmen thought it was foolishly timed, were more angry than sympathetic about the commotion it caused...
...since the fighting forebears of Brian Boroihme put to sea in currachs against Britain a millennium and a half ago has Ireland had a navy of any account. Until one day this winter, when the flag of Eire broke out at the stern of the trim, new, 50-knot torpedo boat, M1, independent Eire had no Navy at all. Even then, Eire got this ship from the British, the Government having ordered six such craft from British shipbuilders for coast-watching and general marine service...
...crew gradually spilled the beans. Whoever would talk got free drinks. Some of the men were reticent and asked not to be quoted. Senior Printer Pearce Jones not only consented to be quoted; he insisted. "I am protected," he said, "by the Typographical Society of Great Britain and Ireland." Greaser Tom Barber and Fireman Jim O'Brien and Engineer Peter Johnson were in fine form. Oiler Jack Sykes babbled in Cockney. Gradually the story took consecutive shape...