Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week big-hearted William Meringer was in Dublin with his wife and two children, doing his level best to repay destiny. He told Dublin relief workers to round up 700 poor gossoons and colleens. These he sat down to a great dinner in the City Hall. The piece de resistance: hasenpfeffer...
Died. William Wallace McDowell, 67, U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, one-time Democratic State Chairman of Montana (TIME. April 9); of a heart attack while attending a dinner given in his honor by President Eamon de Valera; in Dublin...
...Majesty's representative, the governor general of the Irish Free State, sat reading the papers in his suburban cottage outside Dublin. At the U. S. legation Minister William Wallace McDowell buckled on a very clean collar, put a silk hat on his head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
...Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes, sit on no English chair. He prefers to be known by his Gaelic name, Domnhall Ua Buachalla, but will answer to Donal...
...years ago Domnhall the Seanascal endeared himself to the Dublin masses by refusing to send King George for Christmas the traditional pastry of "four and twenty woodcocks baked in a pie,'' for generations the annual gift of Irish viceroys. Dublin instantly rang with a new version of the old song...