Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilde is sparkling. Shaw reports the "maudlin pathos and inconceivable want of tact" of Wilde's brother Willie. Slily he says: "Oscar was not a man of bad character: you could have trusted him with a woman anywhere." Shaw did not like Wilde personally, considered him a "Dublin snob"; but when Shaw was trying to get signatures of London literary men to a petition for the reprieve of the Chicago anarchists (1885), Wilde was the only one who would sign. Says Shaw: "It secured my distinguished consideration for him for the rest of his life...
Died. Professor Allvar Gullstrand, 68, famed Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prizeman for Medicine in 1911, holder of degrees from the Universities of Upsala, Jena, Dublin; in Stockholm...
Married. George A. Gordon, member of the drafting committee which wrote the London Naval Treaty, secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, leading U. S. "continuing expert" on Disarmament since the Naval Limitations Parley in 1927; to Mrs. Alice Vandergrift Garrett of Washington, D. C.; at Dublin, where she was given in marriage by the U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Frederick A. Sterling...
...Protestant Episcopal Church as the first Colonial Branch of the Mother Church, and to promote the Presiding Bishop from sixteenth place in the Anglican hierarchy to the seventh. Henceforth in Anglican processions Bishop Perry and his successors in office will march after the personages representing Canterbury, York, Armagh, Dublin, Brechin, Wales. The Protestant Episcopal Church so far has had no eminent title of archbishop. But in England last week, laity were addressing Presiding Bishop Perry as "Most Reverend," the archiepiscopal designation...
...decided it must be James Stephens (The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight). Such flattery persuaded the late Darrell Figgis to reveal his identity. A Sinn Féiner, he used to run guns into Ireland from Germany for the Irish Volunteers, was arrested in 1916 following the Dublin insurrection, became a member of the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Parliament). The year after The Return of the Hero was published, his wife shot herself. One year later, Widower Figgis committed suicide. Other books: Children of the Earth, Songs of Acaill, Annals of the Irish Wars...