Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grey Dublin shone in brilliant color to two happy housepainters last week. From New York arrived Housepainter Henry Frank to receive a ?30,000 prize from the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes (see p. 17). Pleased indeed was he to learn that the fall of the dollar since the drawing had made his prize worth $20,000 more than he had expected. Gratefully he handed a check for ?1,000 to Sir Joseph Glynn, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, for Dublin's paupers...
...middleaged, married (with a daughter, two sons), well-to-do (he owns a town house, an island and a Norman castle), with an admired position, with such intimates as William Butler Yeats. AE (George Russell). James Stephens. Dr. Gogarty lives sparklingly in Dublin. Once fond of driving his Mercedes at breakneck speeds along Irish lanes, he has now taken to the air. Says he: "It's the only excitement left the middle-aged man except the divorce courts, and it's far more respectable." On his latest visit to Manhattan (last winter) he gave reporters a lively half...
...mild morning air." Every reader of James Joyce's famed Ulysses* will recognize this opening passage. But many Ulysses readers are not aware that Malachi ("Buck") Mulligan represents a real person, with other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty is also no mean versifier, occasionally no mean poet. His version of the old tale of Leda (originally printed in the Atlantic Monthly) is very Irish. One stanza: Of the tales that daughters...
...squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace of swans. A mighty tosspot in his youth, he made a pilgrimage to the top of Featherbed Mountain to restore the snakes to Ireland. When he and Joyce shared a Martello tower near Dublin (Ulysses' opening scene), they protested to the British Admiralty about a warship that interfered with their view, had the ship removed...
...Dubliners last week Armistice Day was just another unpleasant reminder that Great Britain and the Irish Free State are still parts of the same Empire. They showed their feelings by dynamiting an obelisk on Bray Head erected to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. On Armistice Eve the Irish Republican Army and the Laborites paraded and tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem...