Word: corks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David O'Shea, a farm boy from Knock Naloman, County Cork, walked to the scaffold in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin at dawn last week. Outside the gates a morbid crowd cursed the Irish police that hanged him. It was not that they thought David O'Shea innocent, but to the Irish mind he had been caught by unfair means. Irishmen expect sportsmanship in their policemen...
...Crown Cork & Seal...
Even 15 years ago if anyone had seriously suggested in the House of Commons that Tim Healy was destined to become His Majesty's Representative in Ireland, laughter would have shaken the chandeliers. Timothy Michael Healy was born in Bantry, County Cork, in 1855, son of the local poorhouse guardian. His earliest memories* were of creaking farm carts marked with rude white crosses, piled high with corpses of the famine on their way to common burial in the lime pits. These were not memories to make any boy a loyal British citizen...
...campaign is, oddly, not Methodist but Roman Catholic, the invention of Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), an Irish Capuchin friar whose statue adorns the main thoroughfare of Dublin in the immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...
...Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...