Word: irelander
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...avoid Edward VIII's being called King of Canada, King of New Zealand, King of Ireland, etc., his title is ingeniously compressed and arranged backward.* Last week His Majesty ordered that the actual situation created by enactment of the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931 ) be squarely faced. Under this statute Edward VIII is a multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned...
Four years later came the next ocean race, with the 108-ft. English schooner Cambria beating the U. S. schooner Dauntless from Ireland to Sandy Hook by only 1 hr., 43 min. Two Dauntless seamen were lost...
...money back of such generous art patronage was made by James Duval Phelan's father, who came to the U. S. from Queen's County, Ireland, sailed for California in the Gold Rush of '49, accumulated $10,000,000 as merchant, banker, real estate tycoon. Son James never cared for business, was nevertheless one of San Francisco's first citizens. At the height of the 1906 Fire, intrepid James Phelan filled his snorting, blunt-snouted Mercedes with dynamite, gallantly chugged out to the Potrero district, blasted a path that halted the fire at Van Ness Avenue...
...whole Irish nation swore by him, and in Gladstone's Parliament his power was so great that he was in a fair way to wrest Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind...
Parnell went back to Ireland to fight for his lost leadership, but there was too much against him. He made Edmund Leamy editor of his Dublin paper, United Ireland, had to raid its offices twice in 24 hours to recapture it from an anti-Parnellite force. The Catholic Church turned almost solidly against him. Shillalah-bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight...