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...perilously high emigration rate, the government is finally beginning to rebut the bitter quip that Ireland is "a home for men rather than a breeding ground for emigrants and bullocks." The country's rapturous huzzas for John Kennedy were more than an expression of pride in a Gael made good -to many young Irishmen, he seems more real than the Irish martyrs whose streaked statues fill Dublin's parks with silent declamation. Jack's homecoming epitomized to the Irish the successful distance they themselves have traveled...
...GAEL HOYT Medford...
...minorities a voice in the Dail, tends to keep alive old animosities that should have long since become ancient history. "Get rid of the intrigous P.R.!" cried a member of Dev's Fianna Fail (Party of Destiny). "De Valera and Fianna Fail want dictatorship!" retorted the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party. But it was hardly the sort of issue to stir the hearts of a people who 40 years ago fought the "oppressor" and have never got over...
...great concert of talk and narrative, admiring ourselves and one another with warm, welcoming, smiling, appreciative, comradely, rosy hearts. We talked of motor engines and Henry Ford, of poith?n and the fairy fire, of famous poachers and deeds of blood and all the subtle stratagems of the Gael...
...unity of Ireland and the revival of Gaelic as the national tongue. But nobody thought for a minute that he would now fail to get into the Arus an Uachtarain, the presidential mansion set in Dublin's Phoenix Park. There was even talk that the opposition Fine Gael Party would let Dev run unopposed in the June presidential election-if only out of enthusiasm at the idea of seeing him safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly attacked Dev and his "break all links with Britain" policy, said that Dev was "the fitting...