Word: irelander
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...Recently, in Africa, a huntress, one Mrs. Green of Ireland, parted the tropic foliage, took aim with her rifle at a horny rhinoceros The bullet sped, but only wounded. Seven more times she fired; seven more wounds were inflicted. The enraged beast turned and charged. Airs. Green went down, was trampled to death. Properly speaking, no odium could be attached to the great beast. He had been sought out for slaughter. He had been invited to a duel to the death. According to his lights and the law of the jungle, he had done well. Even according...
...item in the Home Secretary's estimates moved ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden to intense indignation. The item was a matter of about $5,500,000 for a special grant to the Government of Northern Ireland to help defray the expenses of the special constabulary. Mr. Snowden declared that there is, counting police and specials, a bobby for every six families in Ulster. He further declared that the money was being used for the "support of Orange ascendancy," and said that, if parliamentary etiquette permitted it, he would, "characterize with an ugly word" the methods...
...problem. To the eternal discredit of Britain, not until the year 1921 was a so-called solution found: the Irish Free State came into being. But this expedient-for it was no more than that-was not the beginning of the end but seemingly the end of the beginning. Ireland is still a most distressful country. Arrived in the U. S. for a lecture tour James Stephens, famed Irish poet and author.* He was once an ardent Sinn Feiner but, in the advent of the Free State, he supported the act which conferred upon his native land "dominion status...
...Author of: The Crock of Gold, Here Arc Ladies, The Charwoman's Daughter, Songs from the Clay, The Demi-Gods, Reincarnation Dcirdrc, In the Land of Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak...
...Casement, who certainly has no reason to love the English, described the depths to which Ireland has sunk since the establishment of the Free State with horror; Ireland's former troubles seem like pale grievances. Mr. Ervine, traveling between Kingston and Cork, said he discovered among the people "bitterness of disillusion, great discontent, deep pessimism about the future, frequent lament over the departure of the British." Dillon declared expressively: "The old Irish Party has been accused of bossing, but, my God! I never thought that I would live to see what is taking place today under an Irish Government...