Word: dubliner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years at hard labor for passing secret information to the Germans in 1932, later went to Berlin to offer his services to the Nazis and spent World War II as a minor broadcasting clerk (nothing more because the Germans thought he was a spy); of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...popular is Charley O's in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. It is not a pub that any Irishman would recognize but, as Restaurant & Waldorf Associates puts it, "the kind of pub an Irishman might like to open if he came to New York." The owners poked about Dublin absorbing atmosphere, installed kegs of Irish Harp beer on draft in order to create what the owners like to think is "a womb with a brew." Somehow the globe lamps, corned-beef and 5? meatball sandwiches, and stand-up tables seem to have done the trick...
...causing wide spread shutdowns on everything from telephones to electrically operated hospital suction pumps (one poor chap suffered a long interruption in a major operation-being Irish, he survived). At the same time, members of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association were striking and picketing government buildings in Dublin...
Slumping Stock Market. Many Irishmen viewed the bank strike with ebullient aplomb. "I had an overdraft due in two weeks," crowed a Dubliner, "now I can forget about it." Said an official of the Irish Central Bank, only half-jokingly: "People may soon decide that banks aren't necessary after all." Others took the situation more seriously. With cash scarce, trading on the Dublin Stock Exchange slumped, and the Tipperary cattle market closed altogether...
Next year Alfred takes a sabbatical from Harvard and already his calendar is filled with teaching stints the country and with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan...