Word: irelander
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Surely you know that Lindbergh never flew from New York to Paris? He hired a double who took off from New York and has been hiding in Jersey City ever since. When the right number of hours had elapsed Lindbergh, who had been lying low in Ireland, flew across the Channel and the people of Paris who had never seen him before were completely taken...
...should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil war of letters...
...Nest of Simple Folk's 398 sensitive, homegrown pages Author O'Faolain spreads with slow care the history of three generations of an Irish family, from 1854 to 1916. Since Ireland is going downhill, so does his family, but theirs is not a political story. Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better...
...Fascist foe blue-shirted General Owen O'Duffy. Last fortnight de Valera men stopped the blue-shirted General on his way to address a County Mayo meeting of the blue-shirted party he had just renamed the "League of Youth" after the President banned it as the Young Ireland Association...
...actual quality is concerned, the water in Ireland is equally as good for the purpose of distillation of whiskies as anywhere else. . . . Any whiskey expert in the United States of America will confirm this statement...