Word: irelander
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...sore head, either from inverted patriotism or from some more personal reason, he may write the kind of vindictive book that shocks the public into attention. Richard Aldington has done just that in The Colonel's Daughter. Banned by Smith's (big distributors) in England, banned by Ireland, but reviewed even by conservative London Punch with cold respect, The Colonel's Daughter should delight U. S. Anglophobes. for this British-written book about Britain is of the kind to make even Britishers wince...
Died, Frank Harris, 75, author, editor and critic (Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions; The Man Shakespeare; My Life and Loves); of asthma; in Nice. Fearless, blatant, egocentric, he had many bitter enemies, a few stanch admirers; his books were often attacked as obscene, sometimes suppressed. Fleeing school in Ireland at 14, he went to the U.S., worked as bootblack, sandhog, hotelclerk, cowboy, became a lawyer and a U.S. citizen. He went to Europe, drifted from one university to another, finally settled in London to edit The Saturday Review, for which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard...
...history of Popular Magazine is the story of Editor Charles Agnew MacLean's life. Editor MacLean was born in Ireland in 1880. Aged five, he was taken to the U.S. His father was a newspaperman who scraped enough money together for Son Charles to go to college. Charles demurred, made his parents move into a better house in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Fired from the New York Sun, fired from the Times, in 1903 Charles Agnew MacLean went to work for Street & Smith. Year after he was put in charge of Smith's, Ainslie's and the newly...
Word spread through Catholic Ireland last week that Orangemen in the north of the Free State were going to hold a big demonstration. The Royal Black Preceptories, an Orangemen's Association, had rented a hall in Cootehill to celebrate the 242nd anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Deny by Orangemen in the rebellion...
...Hurling is Ireland's ancient version of Hockey. Hurling sticks (Hurleys) are shorter and thicker than hockey sticks, with flat bottomed blades as in ice hockey. There are 15 men on a team, seven backs, eight forwards. The field is 140 yards long with a crossbarred goal at each end. A shot over the bar counts 1 point or A of a goal. A goal is a shot beneath the bar. An official game consists of two periods of 30 minutes each. Of hurling says W. P. Clifford, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association...