Word: irelander
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...Ireland alone and 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 for them and their heirs forever, without suit or service,, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven...
...Alarmed London and Belfast (the capital of predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland) by this flat statement...
...Eamon de Valera do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established, and that I will be faithful to H. M. King George V, his heirs and successors by law in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the group of nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...favorite degrees, in the order named, are F. R. G. S., which denotes that the bearer is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London; F. R. A. I., which shows that he has achieved the honor of fellowship in the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and the more simple F. Z. S., indicating fellowship in the Zoological Society of London, with the privilege of free entrance into the London Zoo six days a week. "No proof of achievement of any kind is required of the individual who wishes to break into these scientific circles...
...their laying season, domesticated hen ostriches lay one or two eggs a week. In Detroit's zoo one day last week, an ostrich named Queenie deposited two three-pound eggs within 30 minutes. Zoologists marveled, pronounced binovulation a condition exceedingly rare in ostriches. Said Zookeeper John W. Ireland: "I never heard of such a thing...