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Everybody in Eire was sure that nobody in Eire wanted last week's general election. But the constitution grants the Dail five years of life, a tenure now up. So the electors, from Donegal to Dublin, walked or jaunted to the polls in every schoolhouse, where those officials known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Dev Loses His Majority | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

In the grey Atlantic swells off the rugged Donegal coast bobbed a strange, black, knobby object. The young fishermen of Ballymanus village strolled down to the sea, stared and wondered. At length came the official coast watcher. It was a mine, he warned: let no one touch it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Death in Donegal | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

England's hero is Irish, born in County Donegal, 55 years ago. His father was a bishop of the Anglican Church, who carted Bernard off to Tasmania when he was an infant and proposed that Bernard follow in his churchly steps. Bernard preferred to be a soldier. He went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Veni, Vidi, Vici. Bernard Montgomery was the hero of Britain last week. He was the man who, for the first time in World War II, had routed a German Army. He is an austere man, the son of a bishop and the grandson of Dean F. W. Farrar, who wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Bishop's Son | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Less de luxe makeshifts are being employed by other Irish, for Eire faces several acute war-born shortages. Coal and gasoline are so scarce that Irish trains have grown fewer and less predictable than ever; many passenger buses are being discontinued. After a generation of disuse, sailing-boat transports sail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Time Marches Back | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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