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...their helmets. At the castle yard a battalion of infantry, in green, saluted him. Officers with drawn swords led him upstairs to St. Patrick's Hall where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange, rhythmic gurgling and throat-clearing stopped, Minister Owsley replied in his own broad Texas accent: "I am proud on this eventful occasion in this historic Dublin Castle...
...indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last...
...crevices of rock, he went to England's Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. for financial backing. Man of Aran is the result of his two-year sojourn on Inishmore, largest of the three islands. Decorated with a musical score based on Irish folk songs, equipped with intermittent scraps of Gaelic, the picture proves the Aran Islands to be as inhospitable as Director Flaherty could have hoped. Like his other films, it has no professional actors, no narrative structure. It shows an Aran native (Colman King), his wife, their 13-year-old son, fishing, carrying soil in baskets, catching a shark...
...figure for pious adulation. His Holiness the Pope sent him a long letter of congratulation. At Holy Cross Cathedral the Cardinal celebrated high mass, faltered and wept as he addressed 3,000 people. Eulogies of him were delivered in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Syro-Maronite and Gaelic. Next day 20.000 children attended mass for him at Boston College. Then 30.000 people gathered in Fenway Park for mass and speeches by Senator David Ignatius Walsh, Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield. Half a century ago to the week William O'Connell, 24, was ordained...
...matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes, sit on no English chair. He prefers to be known by his Gaelic name, Domnhall Ua Buachalla, but will answer to Donal, and insists that his office is not that of a Sassenach governor general...