Word: fenian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question is this: The Fenian Cycle, of which this tale is a part, is hundreds of years old. It is thought to have originated sometime around the 3d or 4th Century. Various versions of the tales were transmitted to manuscript from the 9th to the 11th Centuries, or even later. The particular manuscript from which this translation was made (by Dr. Gerard Murphy, of Dublin) is dated about 1627. In your opinion is the discrepancy in the size and ambition of lake monsters which comparison makes evident, the result of degeneration brought about by time (small t) or does...
...events, the falling of the curtain found the United States victor in its internecine war and still in friendly relations with Great Britain. Most of the issues of that day,--neutral rights, the Alabama Affair, the fishery controversy, the Fenian Brotherhood, expatriation and naturalization,--had been forgotten when in 1896 William Ewart Gladstone published his confessions...
...story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics when he was arrested for the death of a "peeler" that one of his friends killed. His passionate, pious, innocent sweetheart, Elsie Sherlock, saved...
...trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII captioned "DOWN WITH THE FENIAN KING...
SALUTE TO APHRODITE-Rearden Conner-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Irish melodrama laid in the days of the Fenian conspiracies, revolving around a powerful peasant Don Juan...