Word: irelander
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...William Edward Hartpole Lecky was horn in Ireland, 1838, and died in London, 1903. He was one of the first great historians to show the connection between the American Revolution and of Great Britain's century-old struggle for popular government...
Ishbel Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. One of the noted philanthropists of Great Britain, Lady Aberdeen has shared her husband's pleasant duties as Governor General of Canada and his exacting labors as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He is senior peer of Scotland. She, Ishbel Maria Majoribanks Gordon, is the mother of two sons and one daughter. Her life-has been spent in good works, notably in services for Canadian women. She belongs to many clubs, such as the Onward and Upward Association, the National Health Association of Ireland, Lady Aberdeen has been President of the International Council...
Harvard men have borne up bravely under the news of various faculty losses this year, but the news that Mike, the famous Mike of the tattered Crimson flag and Crimson sweater, is to take a sabbatical year in Ireland came last night as a distinct shock...
...given his aunt the prettiest black eye, that woman swore, which she had ever received. In adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...
...Bourke traveled and were happy. She would go back to Ireland, she said, to bear his son. But the son never came. She wasted, thinking herself cursed and taken in adultery by this earthly marriage. When they did go back to Shanganagh, the old place lost its sweet peace, the ivies fell, the servants left. O'Malley took brandy. Gossip told him she had resumed her white, gone back. He foreswore his name and foreswore that gallant Irish fable: "The woman pays...