Word: irelander
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...Nature grew disturbed, then violent. Great storms lashed the continent of Europe from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. Gales and floods brought death to 149 men and women, most of whom went down on foundered merchant ships or perished in the many flooded areas of the Rhineland, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Seldom has Death come more awesomely. The storm was worthy even of George V, King and Emperor, defender of the faith, who lay all week in his great bed at Buckingham Palace, silently and bravely fighting the bacilli of influenza and pleurisy...
Died. Baron O'Neill, 89. head of the O'Neills of County Antrim, Ireland; in Eralerstown, County Derry, Ireland. Oldsters said they heard the wail of the banshee on the shores of Lough Neagh, the night before his death...
...John McCormack, Irish-American tenor, returned from Ireland and announced he might sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Smith rally in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, "provided, of course, that I'm wanted." Wanted, he sang...
...League consists of 20,000 young women of the U. S. allied by social security and an urge, sometimes vague, toward charity. There are also Junior Leagues in Canada, Honolulu. Recently colleens in Ireland have shown interest, written letters, spoken of forming yet another Junior League...
...There was niver any fun in Ireland, me lad-it was always a wailin' and a weepin' country. Hearts full of the great sadness and stomicks empty of food-fools prayin' to God, and starvin' on their knays. Ireland at its bist was a hard country-we lived wit the pigs and the geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion...