Word: irelander
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...romantic history of the Irish by an Irishman and an attempt to understand the human and popular forces that have made Ireland what...
...November 8, Hon. Wm. T. A. Fitzgerald, Registrar of Deeds for Suffolk County, delivered an instructive lecture on property registration. On December 6, James P. Connolly, the well-known author of Sea Stories, gave an interesting recital of his experiences in Ireland during the late rebellion. On January 10, Rev. Fr. Wm. J. Farrell, former chaplain of the 103rd Field Artillery, addressed the members and recounted some of the momentous events of his service overseas. The Club was especially favored on February 14, when Rev. Dr. Joseph P. Murphy of St. John's Seminary lectured on his tours...
...signing of the Irish Peace agreement marks the end of a second period of terrorism and guerilla warfare which has not only brought little credit to Ireland but has even cast grave doubts on her ability to govern herself under the Irish Free State. Like the treaty between England and Sinn Fein this settlement was signed quite suddenly at a crisis of Irish affairs. Since the speeches of Collins and De Valera, in a sort of Lincoln-Douglas series, early in March, conditions have grown steadily worse, particularly in Limerick and about Belfast, until finally they assumed almost the dimensions...
Today, for the first time in modern history, St. Patrick's day will be celebrated on both sides of the Irish Channel: in Ireland, because there is now something tangible to celebrate: in England, because of the widespread relief that at last the Irish burden is shifted to other shoulders and Britain has washed her hands of the whole business...
...that international nuisance, the Professional Irishman,--celebrates today, it that the Irish Question is at last left to the Irishmen themselves to settle, without direction from the outside. Even the spirit of the more enlightened British administrations, inspired by the idea embodied in Cromwell's proclamation of 1649, that Ireland was to receive all the benefits of a free, reformed English government if only she would behave and let her house be put in order; failed to make the average Irishman in the least enthusiastic. But now Ireland is in the business for herself. It may that a civil...