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Senator William Butler Yeats, famed poet, stood up in the Irish Free State Senate, objected to Ireland "taking her marriage law from Spain...
...poet referred to the fact that there is no divorce law in Ireland, said separation without the possibility of remarriage lowered morality. He called attention to three great Irishmen-O'Connell, Nelson, Parnell-all of whom had conducted "affairs." Here, however, Lord Glenavy, President of the Senate, asked him to leave the dead alone. Mr. Yeats, deprived of spicy arguments, abruptly said that Protestantism stood for personal liberty. Presumably, he referred to the matter of marriage...
Engaged. Miss Kitty Kiernan of Longford, Ireland, onetime fiancee of the late Michael Collins, to General Felix Cronin, Irish soldier. Three former fiances, all soldiers, have met violent deaths. The first, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot in her father's inn; the second and the third (the famed Collins) were shot during the summer of 1922 by Irish Republicans...
...second largest party in the Free State-the Republican-and a national figure whose constitutional theories do not fit in with those of the majority of his countrymen or with the sentiments of the people of Britain. More than that, he is still Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, and it seems worth nobody's while to oust...
...Wednesday, June 16, Professor Hudson will be the guest of honor at a luncheon by the International Parliamentary Union, at which President Cosgrave will be present. The following day he is scheduled to make the principal address before the League of Nations Society in Dublin. After his visit in Ireland, he will go to Geneva to work in the legal section of the League Secretariat...