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...SOME time now I've had a ticket for a charter flight scheduled to leave for London the day after summer school closes. From there I'd planned to get to Dublin and then on to Galway, where, I'm told, I will find relatives--whose existence I have previously been quite unaware of--but who have nonetheless managed to acquire a hotel and are, surprisingly enough, getting on. Well, seeing Brendan Behan's The Hostage at the Loeb a few nights ago almost changed all that. Though I'm sure my second cousin's hostel cannot be half...
Sickened by all this, Mahoney desperately reaches out to a new life. He studies till his eyeballs boil and wins a scholarship to the university in Galway. But the struggle to escape exhausts his will to live. Fearing achievement more than failure, he subsides again into despair, quits college and sinks into the working masses, possibly forever...
...Smile." Donovan has a more outgoing personality to sell such ideas than had Gross. Hissed by the city's ever-outraged pressure groups, he has remained cool. He is a persuasive, fact-conscious speaker. His tenor delivery of Galway Bay at public dinners sets Irish eyes to smiling; his show tunes at bar mitzvahs please Jewish friends. A joiner, he is an American Legionnaire, an executive board member of the National Council of Catholic Men, and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature. A sign on his desk reads...
...believed the axiom that "England's extremity is Ireland's opportunity." Casement went to Germany and tried to raise an Irish Brigade from among British prisoners-of-war, but could get only 53 volunteers. In April of 1916, Casement and two other Irishmen landed on the Galway coast from a German submarine; they were captured the next day. The result was one of the century's most notorious treason trials. In its mixture of nationalist hate and sexual perversion, it seemed to expose a whole dread, unsuspected side of the Edwardian...
Diaphragm Power. Elizabeth Flynn came young to radicalism. The daughter of an Irish nationalist from Galway. she was born in Concord, N.H., in 1890, educated in Bronx schools, and became a Socialist at 15 under her mother's maiden name of Gurley. A slim, blue-eyed girl with soft brown hair who wore a flaming red tie around her shirtwaist collar, she demanded among other things that all children be supported by the Government, thus freeing women of dependence...