Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hard Life, Flann O'Brien, a lionized Dublin novelist, columnist and licensed literary legpuller, has served all this brew with a difference. In place of the spice of hot rage (at Irish meanness) or the sticky sauce of garrulous sentiment (about Irish foible) that so often dress up the dish, he uses deadpan understatement...
Plied with Whisky. The Hard Life's crazy old man is Mr. Collopy, a sixtyish sack of Biblical malapropisms whose ruling passion is a campaign to get the Dublin City Corporation to install public rest rooms for women. The book's narrator-a boy named Finnbar- and his older brother Manus come to live with the old man as orphans aged five and ten. In nightly colloquy at Collopy's, the boys listen as a forbearing Jesuit priest, Father Fahrt, is plied with Kilbeggan whisky and tried by his host's assaults on the Society...
...realism crops up occasionally. In Finnbar, fleeting touches of gentleness and humane disgust at the proceedings undercut the parody and encourage the reader to take him seriously as a man rather than a manikin. Even at that, O'Brien has made a point: burlesqued or not, life in Dublin is no bed of Four Roses...
Died. Francis Hackett, 79, pince-nezed Irish steward of letters who, like other Dublin literary dissidents, exiled himself to the U.S. in 1901 where he was lauded for his lively book criticism in the Chicago Evening Post, the New Republic and the New York Times, and for his even livelier biographical study of the private lives of Henry VIII; of a heart attack; near Copenhagen, Denmark...
John J. Toomey, State Representative from Middlesex County, called Vellucci "a credit to the people of Cambridge and a representative of all the people." James J. Madden, a professor at the University of Dublin in Ireland, proposed an "Irish toast to Al" (a poem which the professor had composed himself) and then proceeded to tell several unscholarly jokes...