Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While abroad, the Crimson team will also meet competitors from the Dublin University, in that city, and the Northern Ireland University at Belfast...
After the Cambridge-Oxford meet, the Harvard-Yale team boards a boat for Dublin for a meet on the 26th and 27th. On the 28th, it enters its last competition in Belfast...
...hung above him during his own lifetime. Ireland, which is not always proud of its writers, was proud of him. Eire made him a Senator. He was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize. When, in 1940, Poet T. S. Eliot delivered the First Annual Yeats Lecture in Dublin's Abbey Theater, he called Yeats "the greatest poet of our time-certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language...
...much by Irish whisky as English bullets. It is this mixing of noble and ignoble motives that gives Insurrection its salty, human tang. By sticking close to the theme and laying it out in the plainest of prose styles, Author O'Flaherty gives the sharpest possible picture of Dublin bursting its buttons, its streets crisscrossed with an interweaving mob of poets, patriots, drunks, floozies, looters and sharpshooters. The result is not a great novel, nor even a very remarkable one, but it does suggest that the "Troubles" may go marching along in fiction as indomitably as the American Civil...
...than have the best practice in Harley Street," eventually turned out some 50 novels, for 30 years was one of the most popular purveyors of old-fashioned romance (The Blue Lagoon; An American at Oxford); on the Isle of Wight, where he had settled down after leaving his native Dublin...