Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banned as "a disorderly person" from participating in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade, Dublin Author Brendan Behan as always had the last and loud est word. Said he, mindful of the fact that the parade authorities included a local judge: "I have a new theory on what happened to the snakes when St. Patrick drove them out of Ireland. They all came to New York and became judges." If asked in a pinch to name the world's most oppressive press photographers, many an actress would settle on the horde that prowls Rome. At Fiumicino...
...Colombo. Dublin, Rome, Teheran, Melbourne and Delhi, demonstrators marched through the streets shouting "Lumumba!" and waving anti-Belgian placards. In Cairo, the Belgian embassy was set afire...
...Three Worlds of Gulliver (Morningside; Columbia). Dean Jonathan Swift of Dublin Cathedral, who in 1729 made "a modest proposal" that the children of the poor should be fattened like cattle and then eaten by the rich, might well be wickedly amused to hear that Gulliver's Travels, his epic of disgust for men and all their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes...
Died. Barry Fitzgerald, 72, the gift of Dublin's Abbey Theater to Hollywood; following a brain operation; in Dublin. From 1917 to 1929 Fitzgerald (real name: William Joseph Shields) led a double life as a bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous...
SCARCELY a day passes in the city of Dublin that dozens of citizens and visitors do not climb the oak staircase within the nearly four-centuries-old Trinity College Library. They enter the majestic, arched Long Room, pass along the galleries to a desk in the center, part a pair of curtains to peer into a glass-enclosed display case. They are there to see Ireland's most precious treasure, the Book of Kelts...