Word: drogheda
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Cromwell failed, says Author Macken, because of "little men" like Dominick MacMahon, who proved that the human back is stronger than the oppressor's whip. Surviving the siege of Drogheda-during which his wife is murdered and one child struck dumb-stubborn Dominick dodges his way through sacked and smoking Ireland accompanied by a saintly priest, helped by Irish guerrillas and making the customary hairbreadth escapes from gun and gallows. Author Macken brings such sweeping lyricism to this flight as to make it seem that plucky Dominick is battling his way the length of Siberia instead of the mere...
...Irish from shortages such as belligerents were suffering. They lacked bread, coal and gasoline; they burned peat and prepared jaunting-cars for the near future when automobiles will dry up. But the tea shortage was considered the greatest enormity the English had inflicted on them since Cromwell sacked Drogheda...
...Irish project is sure, in a city with the Irish ingredients of New York, of many and potent sympathizers. In the original Irish Theatre group there were twelve members, including a clerk from Bog of Allah named Sean Dillon, a Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble...