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...Story* of how James O'brien, he that had been Ireland's curly-headed rebel poet before he hushed his tongue and earned the name of Jimmy the Hangman for sitting, iron-jowled, on a high bench of justice as Lord Glenmalure; of how this man married his sweet daughter Connaught to John d'Arcy, a tricky swipe but polished, instead of to fine young Dermot McDermot of Dermotstown, as brave a lad of the old land as was in it, so that she might be a great lady and go about the world instead of stopping...
...brown bees of Ireland are never forgotten, in their clean skips by golden-thatched cottages. And blue turf smoke is there, and all the birds of Ireland...
...last week launched a new and as yet unnamed Irish party at Dublin. Said he to former Sinn Feiners who have "bolted" with him: "Let our keynote be abolition of the Oath of Fealty.** The ideal of the majority of the Irish people is still broadly a Republican ideal. . . . Ireland should be united, free and Irish. . . . The people can be banded together for the pursuit of that ideal if a reasonable program, based on existing conditions, is set before them...
...Text: "I...do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State...and I will be faithful to H. M. King George V...in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the...British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Dublin, on the exceedingly beautiful morning of Easter Monday, 1916, a bloody riot was followed by the issuance of a manifesto in which the revolutionaries proclaimed Ireland an Independent State and a Republic, in the name of Sinn Fein ("We Ourselves"). On that day Eamonn (Edward) de Valera distinguished himself by capturing Boland's Bakery, which he ingeniously utilized as a fortress and a food supply base. From Boland's Bakery he vaulted through an orgy of terror to the presidency of "We Ourselves," which constituted "the Irish Republic." When the Irish Free State Agreement was negotiated...