Word: begorra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is nothing better calculated to rile the Irish than to treat them as a land of begorra, shillelaghs and shamrocks. Yet the myth is part of the land, and so is the economic progress that at last has reversed the emigration rate. It will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould...
From Boston came the last begorra of the late James Michael Curley, sometime mayor, Governor and U.S. Congressman. Although often accused of sticky fingers and once imprisoned for five months on conviction of mail fraud, Curley-according to an accounting of his will filed last week-left a net estate of only...
...earlier novel. But Charlie dwindles into a gabby stage Irishman. Father Kennedy promises to be one of Graham Greene's degraded but tormented priests. Instead, his anguish is smothered in resignation, and his vocation is feeble. Compared with The Last Hurrah, this novel is a kind of lost begorra...