Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dublin, Irish Free State, Dec. 2--Crowds rioted in movie houses tonight when films of the wedding of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina were shown. Rioters sang the Irish soldiers song and shouted: "Long Live the Republic...
...dressy of the world's four great theatre organizations* arrived in Manhattan last week for a month's stay before touring the U.S. Far less numerous than New York's Jews but no less demonstrative, the city's Irish gave the Abbey Theatre players from Dublin a warm Hibernian welcome. Drama lovers in general were glad to have the troupe back after a two-year absence, but the first offering, Sean O'Casey's The Plough & the Stars, was strictly for Irish ears. Its brogue was so thick that the play remained practically unintelligible...
Scene is a poor district of north Dublin during the 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief...
...playing in New York. As a dramatist, he is known for his power, and is described in the invitations as belonging to "what might be called the Post-Revolutionary period of Anglo-Irish Literature." Since his early successful plays, Mr. O'Casey has lived in London, previously residing in Dublin...
...huge drum in Dublin their numbers had been drawn for horses entered in the Cambridgeshire Stakes at Newmarket, England, a race which decides one of the three great annual lotteries of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes committee. That meant a sure $2,000 return on each one's $2.50 investment. It also meant a chance to win $150,000, $75,000 or $50,000 for tickets on the horses which took first, second or third places. But there were 37 horses entered in the race. And at the Ritz-Carlton last week sat a big, bland, dapper, young Briton ready...