Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contractor's saw was once too small to fit its girth)-in Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor of trees, or any having access...
Last week, Angus MacMillan had more than his neighbors to listen to him. His fame had spread to Dublin, and the Irish Folklore Commission, which pursues Gaelic wherever it may lead, had sent a man with a Dictaphone to take down what he said. Working at night after his chores are done, Angus has finished about 700 recordings, and still has 700 more to do. The commission expects to have enough stories to fill 20 volumes, may some day translate them into English...
...publishers read Dublin-born Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. The Irish storyteller and playwright liked it so much that he volunteered to write an introduction, in which he calls Bridie Steen "one of the great novels of our time, not quite to be forgotten in a hundred years." With his handsome assist...
...pappy Gene wore as a political trademark, pitched his "white supremacy" campaign for governor on a new note of sweet reasonableness: "Segregation is best for the white man and best for the colored man." This week "Hummon" had to give up his speechmaking temporarily. In an auto crash near Dublin, Ga., he suffered a cut mouth...
...Dublin, the greenish, 3½-ton statue of Queen Victoria which has aroused Irish ire for 41 years (TIME, July 12), was finally removed to a Kilmainham storehouse (along with the plaque inscribed from the Queen's loyal "Irish subjects") to make room for a parking...