Word: irelander
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...news went abroad: Ireland is starving...
...west of Ireland suffered for lack of potatoes (its staple food) for the lack of peat (its staple fuel). The Free State Government rushed aid to the stricken area, fed daily 18,000 persons, distributed much free coal...
President (Premier) Cosgrave, who has recently returned to Ireland from the south of France, where he basked in the sunshine for his health's sake, finds himself in a difficult situation. Bye-elections for ten constituencies must be held, and this in the face of Republican attacks and adverse criticism from his own party has given Mr. Cosgrave food for grave reflection...
...Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events, a tour. In the Evocation Catalane, the Flonzaleys went to Spain; in the Raga, to Kashmir; in the Ireland-aise, to Ireland; in the Gasal, to Persia. Clever, literary music it was, each division telling a story. The Fonzaleys told those stories with their fingers...
Distance and space might be raised as objections to this scheme. But even these might be easier task-masters than brutal Britain. At least, it would be a fine thing for Harvard to make such an offer. It would be for God, for Liberty, and for Ireland...