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...their own, if not their lieutenant's, reckonings; the other seven include homeless kids, a mulatto misfit, an aged and ageless field hand with a whip-striped back. In the eyes of Lieut. Byrne -a D.P. himself, as the son of an evicted tenant farmer from County Galway-they are as motley as the loth Cavalry's moniker for the whole of Troop M: the Calico Troop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed (Historical) Fiction | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Cantankerous Christian. Siobhan McKenna has been playing parts her way ever since she grew up in Galway, daughter of a mathematics professor, and began her play acting with her pals in a neighbor's barn. For a while the theater came close to losing her to her father's profession, but her love of Gaelic and the stage kept her coming back to Irish drama. Soon she was involved with Saint Joan, the role that has almost become her alter ego. For a starter she translated the Shaw play into Gaelic, but her greatest triumph came later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Going Her Way | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Galway black-shawled women last week knelt on the grey cobblestones telling their beads. The men stood by in silence, their weathered faces turned to the driving rain, as the black-and-red-hulled French trawler, Jules Verne, steamed slowly into harbor, its flag at half-mast. Only the tolling of bells, the slopping sound of water against pilings, the bitter wind singing in the telegraph wires broke the silence as the first bodies were brought ashore. They were wrapped, not in half a red sail, but in blue blankets and blue plastic shrouds, and Monsignor George Quinn whispered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Riders to the Sea | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Rescue. Ships of all sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Riders to the Sea | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Offered: Plants & Equipment. For the foreign industrialist who brings his know-how to one of the underdeveloped western counties-Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Donegal, Kerry, Sligo or Leitrim-the Irish government will buy a site, build a plant for him, train his workers and pay half the cost of plant equipment. Elsewhere, Ireland will grant two-thirds of the cost of the plant up to $140,000. In addition, foreign enterprises will be freed from income taxes on export profits for at least five years, excused from 67% of local property taxes for at least seven years. Dublin will guarantee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Welcome to Ireland | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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