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...where the River Shannon flows under O'Brien's Bridge. President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week opened a sluice. The Bishop of Killaloe was there to bless the sluice, to murmur a Latin benediction. Soon muddy Shannon water was gurgling slowly into Ireland's biggest ditch, a huge canal-reservoir six miles long, deep enough to engulf a four-story home...
...friend in Colorado has just sent me a clipping from your excellent magazine of June 10, in which you quote me as asserting I had been jailed in Boston. I never said such a thing because the only place I ever was in jail was Cork, Ireland, where I was erroneously accused of having planned the battle of Kenmare, in which two tree Maters lost their lives...
Since last winter Curtiss Flying Service, as sales agents for Curtiss, Curtiss-Robertson, Cessna, Ireland, Command-aire and Sikorsky planes, has been advertising with confident emphasis...
Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most...
Besides his conduct and "pact of friendship," Guest Dawes gave the members of the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland "a few practical suggestions to ponder." "The ideal of your association" he explained, "is to bring people together in mutual friendship and mutual understanding. The methods of an organization like this should be adjusted not to human reasoning, but to human nature.* I have an invitation from the Mayor of Sudbury to go down there to receive the freedom of the town. Sudbury is where my people came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to me; it touched something...