Word: irelander
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...Lackan, County Mavo, Ireland, a Catholic priest, one Father Quinn, listening drowsily to his radio. The weather reports were coming in: ". . . rains over Holland . . . cold days marching southward through France. . . ." As he reached to turn off the loud speaker, its hoarse voice growled a terrible threat: "High wind and rain ... a hurricane . . . tempest will reach the west coast of Ireland tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning...
...Ireland, uprising against England at soccer football, was suppressed 2-0. England, according to the records for international soccer, is eight times as good as Ireland. Soccer is not for sicklies. One Hufton, Londoner, took a broken arm home with him to the West Ham Club...
...Cosgrave's reply was stinging. With his fists clenched, his body trembling with suppressed rage and his face pale with passion, he denied Sean O'Kelley's charges and insinuations and defended his policy. "I yield to no one as an Irishman in my love for Ireland," he snapped. "For five years I have been working here in the interests of ... a free, independent Irish nation...
...lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
They started at dawn, electing a direct course instead of the great circle over New Foundland and Ireland. Storms battered them southward from the start. 500 miles out they were sighted by a passenger ship. They were seen no more that day, that night. Crowds waiting at Le Bourget field, Paris, turned away, glum, morose...