Word: irelander
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...Perhaps it [hurling] began when two Irishmen fought with clubs for the possession of a potato and their neighbors took sides. There was hurling in Ireland a thousand years ago and it has been played ever since...
...eagerness to up-to-datedly emulate mid-Victorian Punch's idea of being funny at Irishmen's expense TIME overlooks the fact that there were no potatoes in Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...
Harvard proudly announces her acquisition of a splendid collection of the renowned Shakespeare forgeries which were foisted upon a blinking world in the eighteenth century by William Henry Ireland. This assortment is extremely complete, and includes bogus manuscripts, letters, and signatures. Now is the time for some scholar to bring endless discomfiture to the banks of the Charles, by proving that the collection is genuine, and, therefore, spurious. -The Cornell...
...this series of War pictures that won him his knighthood in 1918. But beside the successful portrait painter there was another Billy Orpen. His soul revolted frequently at painting the smug faces of Success. He never lost his fondness for Gypsies and the color of the West of Ireland. He made brilliant little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname...
...best shop in town for Irish Bacon." He opened shop after shop until he built a chain of some 600. In 1885 he began specializing in tea, developed his own plantations in Ceylon. His interests widened to include candy shops in London, ginger ale plants in Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with a crest showing two arms crossed...