Word: irelander
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...Free State into Eire (TIME, July 12 et ante). The new Constitution is so drawn that the "territory" of Mr. de Valera's nation "consists" of the whole island, and yet its "jurisdiction" today is only over what was formerly the Free State and not over Northern Ireland (see map).* Not only does Eire have to be mapped as two areas at once, but the whole conception is of a Catholic Irish nature, recalling that the new Constitution opens with the words: "In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority...
...Protestants of Northern Ireland, this authority seems not only insufficient but provocative. They were boiling mad last week, and Viscount Craigavon, their Premier, was playing host in Belfast to new United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. If there should be fighting as a result of the new Constitution, Secretary Hore-Belisha will have well surveyed the Irish ground...
...this week with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mr. MacDonald is of course to attempt conciliation. Success will be hard to achieve, but optimists recalled that away back in 1921 the British Government, then headed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, declared that "any effort to induce Ulster [Northern Ireland] to unite with the rest of Ireland will have our benevolent neutrality." After Mr. Lloyd George had had a little more contact with Mr. de Valera, the Welshman observed: "Negotiating with that Irishman is like trying to scoop up mercury with a fork...
...Juno and the Paycock" again stimulates Boston audiences with its candid humor soon lost in trenchant satire and irony, and capped by unmitigated and all-pervasive tragedy. Sean O'Casey has chosen 1922 for his grim picture, when much of the actual fighting in Ireland was over, but men were known for their deeds and their sympathies. He sets up a family from the slums of Dublin, and through them he lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon...
...Ireland is hooey, Ireland is A gallery of fake tapestries, But I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, The woven figure cannot undo its thread...