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...their future in a largely Catholic Ireland. Invoking slogans like "Home Rule Is Rome Rule," the Protestant Ulstermen drafted their own constitution, and pledged to fight the British for the right to remain British. Home rule for Ireland was shelved with the advent of World War I and the "Easter Rising" in Dublin in 1916. But the Irish Republican Army had been created, and it fought a bloody guerrilla war until independence was finally granted in 1921. Ireland was partitioned into the 26 counties forming the Irish Free State in the south and the six counties that make up Northern...
Rocky, a dark bay with an insignificant little head, a tiny, battle-scarred chest, concave flanks and protruding ribs, was caught on Easter Sunday and has been confined ever since on the outskirts of Reno in a small pen with heavy timbered fences eight feet high. At the approach of humans. Rocky races down to the other end of the pen, perks his ears, then lays them back and gallops in mad circles. Only the pen is too small, the turning angle too sharp, and Rocky keeps falling on his side. "Ain't he sorry?" laughs Mustanger Bill Victor...
Back in 1960, baseball was the hottest sport in Buffalo. Not that any Buffalo sport was hot news. The Bisons of the International League, managed by Kerby Farrell and featuring such stars as Bobby Wine, Ed Kranepool, and Big Luke Easter, had nothing to contend with in the local sports news. Hockey, and famous names like Dennis DeJordy, Wayne Maki, and Ed Van Impe (who have risen to anonymity with hockey expansion), at that time still ended before...
...Irish Republic from 1959 to 1966; in Dublin. The protégé of Eamon de Valera, Lemass graduated to Parliament from the crucible of the Black and Tan conflict. At 16 he holed up with Irish Republican Army soldiers in Dublin's General Post Office during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Fifteen rebels were shot and thousands deported after British shells ended the uprising, but Lemass was released. According to Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home to his Mom." He went underground instead. When De Valera...
Prince Philip, who passed through just before Easter, sized up the situation succinctly: "Obviously, you've all given up something for Lent." In Royal Air Force parlance, Gan is an "unaccompanied post"-the only one in the R.A.F.-and that means unaccompanied by wives or girl friends, because there is no room for them on the island. There are 650 men on Gan, but only one female, an Irish matron sent out by the Women's Royal Volunteer Service "to give the lads someone to tell their problems to." They would burn her ears off if they...