Word: irelander
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...sped hurriedly last week on his brief U. S. tour (TIME Jan. 16 and 23). Cheered and harkened to by Irish folk in Manhattan and Chicago, he was afterwards received at Washington by President Coolidge. Throughout the week he popped sayings, some humorous, some sage. "The liquor situation in Ireland is fine. We produce the best whiskey in the world. None other can compare with...
Asked whether the Irish Free State would ever become a Republic,* he parried : "That is a question to be put to the people of Ireland rather than to me. They now have political freedom; it is up to them to decide what their government shall...
Irish Chicagoans were titillated thus: "No city in the history of the world has been so libeled. The citizens seem to me to be more Irish than we are in Ireland and at the same time first class, tiptop American citizens. . . . Ireland is the mother, America the wife...
...history of English legal polity is replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding...
...story is not only of the sea, but also of the urban life of Ireland and the struggle of a strong dynamic man, quite out of place in his natural surroundings. One feels certain that Robert Dun woody is destined for the sea, and yet, after serving his desires for several years, he returns to marry and settle down. It is very evident that he is most unhappy in his new surroundings, and in dealing with the outcome of this unfortunate crisis, Mr. Ervine has built up an exceedingly strong climax...