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...local doctor put a temporary splint on the broken jawbone and sent Cyril to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital. His fractured jaw was soon on the road to recovery, but he still lacked a tongue. Last week, after a series of delicate grafting operations performed in London's Westminster Hospital, at the expense of Britain's national health plan, Cyril had a new tongue. It had been built by three surgeons out of muscle tissue from the floor of his mouth wrapped around with thinly sliced skin from...
About 450 A.D. St. Patrick made his headquarters at Armagh, near Belfast in Northern Ireland, where King Daire of Airgialla gave him the ground for a church and a monastery. Armagh is still the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, with a Protestant and a Roman Catholic cathedral. Both Northern and Southern Irishmen think of it as a symbol of their golden age 1,500 years ago when Ireland was a small bright spot in a Europe plunging down to darkness. The two hostile factions of modern Ireland hold little else in common...
...Tory gesture of spite against Tooke had come home to roost. From the present Parliament, where divisions are too close for comfort, the council decision effectively banned a pulpitless Church of Ireland clergyman named J. G. MacManaway, who was recently elected Tory M.P. from West Belfast...
...Middle Way. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, 50 girls who quit work because the boss would not let them sing on the job went back when he agreed to let them...
Died. Harcourt Alexander Morgan, 82, Canadian-born agricultural entomologist, who became president of the University of Tennessee (1919-33), member of the Tennessee Valley Authority's original three-man board, later its chairman* (1938-41); in Belfast, Tenn...