Word: irelander
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...poem is entitled "A Match at Football", in three Cantos. It describes a match played between the team of Lusk, the Champions of Ireland, and the Soards. It is remarkable how similar is this account of a football game played two centuries ago to our modern newspaper's description of a game. The account in true journalistic style starts off with a description of the crowded "Stadium" and its setting. Then the team comes running on the field, led by Captain Terence. It seems that even a University band attended this primitive match in the person of one "Ventoso...
While under arrest, Mr. de Valera heard that he had been defeated as Republican candidate in the general elections. As a matter of fact, the 13 seats of Northern Ireland were all captured by the Conservative Party...
...Marseillaise grew out of an hysterical mob. The Star-Spangled Banner was inspired by the bursting of bombs by night. Most national anthems are old songs whose symbolic significance came to them later-almost unconsciously. Most of them are worthless as poetry. Many are not notable as music. Ireland, overlooking the psychology of patriotic song, has tried to get an anthem with the aid of a cash prize. Three judges, literary artists all (among them W. B. Yeats), acted as judges. Not one of the hundreds of anthems submitted was deemed worthy. This was to be expected...
Posters. Almost within 48 hours after the dissolution of Parliament had been proclaimed (TIME, Oct. 20), the three big parties started to paste posters in the cities, towns and villages of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland...
...Changing Ireland", by Norreys Jephson O'Conor '07, is an interpretation of the late revival of the Celtic Literature and its ideals, especially showing the relation between the political revolution in Ireland and the intellectual realization of a racial literature and culture...