Word: irelander
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Smoking election torches marched through Dublin streets by night last week. "Up de Valera!" roared the torch bearers, and Ireland's hero was carried shoulder high. Excited Irishmen swore on every hand that Eamon de Valera would soon succeed William Thomas Cosgrave as President of the Irish Free State. With a third of the votes still to be counted, Mr. Cosgrave conceded grimly, "It looks as though my Government would...
...over Ireland the election was proving every minute that what the Irish want is a hero-in which respect they differ from the English...
...people with a stout English heart, otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where cold reason has feared to tread. Ireland, the home of the mystic Celt, and the fearsome Gael has always lured the adventurous. H. A. Jones is unquestionably adventurous. To have written plays during the 19th and 20th centuries with the drama at its lowest ebb, takes courage. To be mistaken for Eugene O'Neill or confused with...
...Valera actually becomes president, time alone will reveal his strength. Probably, like most extremists, he will find his rashness modified by responsibility. In the tariff. England has a weapon more powerful than an army. In any case, Ireland's from antic approach to political realities gives a new force to the lines of the poet who said...
...great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made...