Word: arigho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic of Ireland, as in an ark in a rising flood, Intelligence Officer Frank Allen and Brigid, his bride of a year, await the worst, find solace in each other's love. To their farm outside Dublin, used as a carrier pigeon base, come their friend Joe Arigho, Commandant of Home Defense, and his young daughter Catherine, who trains the carriers. They are expecting messages from the front. Allen tries to make his guests easy, is made uneasy himself by Catherine. Just out of a convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks...
From the sky, after a terrible flight, come the pigeons with news from the front-the worst. Arigho flies off to join the troops, leaving Allen commandant in his stead. At the Staff meeting in Dublin, measures to meet the crisis are harangued. The politicians, represented in the army by Commandant Malone, want only to pull their chestnuts out of the fire; but Allen, to his own surprise, proposes Catherine's plan. Malone's men accuse him of treason. Before they can court-martial him he escapes with Brigid and Catherine, to the friendly aviation base at Rathdonnel...
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