Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the doorman of Dublin's Abbey Theatre is a product of the Irish Renaissance. He can and usually does recommend which copies of the Theatre's extensive repertoire you should buy from him to take home and read. On their second U. S. tour since 1914, which opened in Manhattan last week, the Abbey Theatre's Irish Players were not accompanied by their knowing doorman...
...jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...police were quick. Riot calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew...
Though he never left Swiss soil last week, President de Valera performed from Geneva one of the most thoroughly Irish acts of his career. By his "advice" (order) the royally appointed Governor General of the Irish Free State, James McNeill, journeyed from Dublin to London, called at Buckingham Palace, resigned. Perforce King George accepted the resignation, showed his feelings by having Mr. McNeill to lunch, keeping him at the Palace until 3 p. m. As every Irishman knows, poor Mr. McNeill has been the butt of studied Dublin insults ever since Eamon de Valera became President (TIME, March...
...Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, whose fame in the Midwestern hierarchy is exceeded only by that of Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein and rivalled only by that of Cleveland's own Bishop Joseph Schrembs,† who was in charge of the U. S. section of the Dublin Eucharistic Congress last June. Present also were the new Archbishop of St. Paul, the Archbishop of Dubuque, 25 bishops and 2,000 lower clergy and laymen, to welcome to the Episcopate Monsignor James A. McFadden. 51, Cleveland born and reared, chancellor since 1925 of the diocese. Monsignor McFadden was consecrated...