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Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
...Ireland her own?Ireland her own, and all therein, from the sod to the sky. The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, to have and to hold from God alone who gave it?to have and to hold to them and to their heirs forever, without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven...
...Damn your concessions to England!" headlined Dublin's Republican An Phoblacht before Mr. de Valera had done or conceded anything. "The Anglo-Irish Treaty, lock, stock & barrel must go! Ireland wants no connection with England. The Imperial link must be severed...
Nest. Poet Jeffers' birthplace was Pittsburgh, in 1887. From North Ireland had come his paternal grandfather. His father, an LL.D. learned in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, had married an orphan 23 years, his junior. John Robinson Jeffers was the first fruit; the second. Hamilton Jeffers, now engaged in astronomical work at Lick Observatory, came seven years later...
...merely motivated his tragedies with themes al ready given classic sanction by the Greeks. A brief excursion into Christian mythology in Dear Judas, apparently taken from sense of duty, did not much advance his thought; neither did Descent to the Dead, a compilation of 16 poems written in Ireland and Great Britain on a trip with his wife and twins about three years ago, during which Poet Jeffers spent much of his time looking at graves...