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...telegraph wires on the Kells-to-Belfast line were cut. At Belfast itself a luncheon in honor of H. R. H. Patrick had to be cancelled...
Drums are Beaten, Even further outside Belfast than Stormont is Hillsborough Village, dominated by the Castle of Governor the Duke of Abercorn. Protestant villagers lit bonfires, shouted "God Bless The Prince of Wales!", beat their lamlegs (big goatskin drums...
...societies, once in a Masonic temple, once in a dining room. The players, none of whom has been with the organization less than five years, some of whom have been with it 25, took their trouping humorously, although most of them had never trouped farther away from home than Belfast or London before. This year the tour is to be made strictly "on the plush." Towns to be visited after their four-week stay in Manhattan: Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Kansas City, St. Louis, Boston. Some of the Irish Players, like Eileen Crowe and Udolphus Wright, keep...
Falls Road where Belfast shipwrights and millworkers live is a grimy, normally noisy district. For more than a year now Falls Road has been uncomfortably quiet. One after another Belfast's shipyards and mills have been laying off more & more men, shutting down. Of Belfast's 425,000 souls, 100,000 are on the dole. Pale men in cloth caps lounge in doorways, waiting for the visits of relief workers...
...police were quick. Riot calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew...