Word: irelander
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Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera...
This bow to Dublin was necessary because in Dublin popular Mr. de Valera had just been elected and had taken office as "President" (i. e. Premier) of the ''Irish Free State'' (i. e. Southern Ireland). Fearfully Belfast Protestants heard that Dublin Catholics were roistering in wild Irish fashion every night, shouting that the two Irelands must become one Republic...
...victorious de Valera's pet projects: 1) abolition of the oath of allegiance to King George which is required of members of the Dail; 2) repudiation of the $25,000,000 payments annually made by the Irish Free State to Britons who used to own land in Ireland- the famed "absentee landlords." Suddenly and officially last week the Council of the Irish Labor Party reversed itself, announced that "the Labor Party has always opposed the oath" and further that the Party now stands for ''friendly negotiations" to scale down or terminate the landlord payments...
...Glenarm, County Antrim, Ireland, Alexander McGarvock, informed that his brother had left him $17,200, dropped dead from excitement...
...Moon in the Yellow River. The fifth production of the Theatre Guild's fourteenth season is concerned with revolution in post-Revolutionary Ireland and with Life. A power plant is wrecked, an idealist is shot and therefore a man somehow becomes reconciled to his daughter. The connection between these dramatic entities lies solely in the fact that they occur on the same stage, and weary first-nighters could heartily concur in the German engineer's observation that "this isn't a country, it's a debating society." The uniform worn by a commandant of Free State...