Word: irelander
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Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), called "the Liberator" of Catholic Ireland, was a stalwart debater in the British House of Commons, a fine upstanding leader of the poor and oppressed Irish. After his death the name O'Connell was one for any Roman Catholic to revere. Would not an investment banking house named Daniel O'Connell & Co. sound safe? It did until this year...
...Scene is in a spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young Cambridge man want the savage Dean's spirit exorcised so that they can get on to more personal business, but Jonathan Swift has the upper hand, begins speaking with despairing eloquence about Vanessa, who proposed marriage to him; Stella...
...English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
...days of rioting two people were killed, some 60 wounded. North Irish authorities including His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, and Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were bewildered by the violence of the outbreak, could not understand how normally law-abiding Ulstermen could be so aroused...
Died. The Hon. Katherine Plunket. Ill., oldest woman in the British Isles (she survived the reigns of George IV, William IV, Victoria and Edward VII. remembered Palmerston. Disraeli, Gladstone, and as a child sat on the knee of Sir Walter Scott); peacefully, of old age; in Ballymascanlon, County Louth, Ireland. Granddaughter of John W. Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, she would have no truck with automobiles, radios, phonographs, modern women, had "never heard of" George Bernard Shaw, eschewed "noise & vulgarity." She had been a pioneer Alpine climber, raised roses...