Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night, as Elizabeth slept, a band of Irish Republicans planted a gelignite bomb on the Dublin-Belfast railroad tracks, 40 miles south of Belfast. The explosion blew a five-foot hole in a small trestle bridge, but since the royal route lay northwards to the port of Londonderry, no direct harm was done. Some sufferers: 600 southern Irish who had served in the British forces in World War II and who were journeying to Belfast to salute the Queen. Their excursion train was delayed...
Kirk begins with Edmund Burke, founder of a great line of British-American conservatives. Son of a Dublin lawyer, devout Anglican, party manager of the Whigs, Burke lived in an England torn and undermined by the philosophy of the French Revolution much as the U.S. in the '305 was torn and undermined by the philosophy of the Communist Revolution. In press, Parliament and public opinion, Burke saw signs that Britain was in danger from the doctrines across the Channel. If his fears now seem exaggerated, that impression is perhaps Burke's greatest achievement. "He succeeded," says Kirk...
...Jewish Sabbath. Combat called this "sadistic puritanism." In Paris, a mob tried to storm the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in the Place de la Concorde; a man was shot and a thousand rioters arrested. There were echoes of the violent hate-America drive from Australia's docksides to Dublin's streets...
...Dublin, Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera told Parliament that he and other members of his government had turned down invitations to a Coronation Day garden party at the British embassy for obvious reasons: the title, Queen Elizabeth II "of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," was "unnecessarily and deliberately linked up by the British government with the partition of our country...
...realized that his, like all good poetry, should be read aloud: "Take breath and read it with the ears . . . and my verse comes all right." As a Jesuit priest, Hopkins held down half a dozen posts before being assigned, in the last years of his life, to Dublin's University College as professor of Greek...