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...themselves. Descending on Dublin in the mid-1950s to study medi cine, Blaydon does battle - on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets - with a suc cession of colleens. Beautiful Theresa has a voice as misty as the mountains of Mourne, and a heart hard enough to splinter Cuchulainn's sword. After another fruitless try, with a girl named Oonagh, Blaydon comes to grips with Dymphna Uprichard (pronounced "Eweprichard"), a pale, leggy hoyden who adores wrestling by the hour in hallways and on sofas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Ireland & Life | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...small state is on the losing side," said the spiritual descendant of the great warriors Cuchulainn and Brian Boru, "it can be utterly annihilated. If [it] is on the winning side, it has no means of [enforcing] the principles for which it fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Choice of Fights | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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