Word: fenian
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...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...
...noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years in an English jail for shooting a peeler...
...Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...