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...insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless to say, they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style that many found so "brave" in The Wind Bloweth, so "radiant" in Messer Marco Polo, so "heart-wringing" in O'Malley of Shanganagh, so "tender" in Blind Raftery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Byrne | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Irish Belittled | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...awaited .the inventor's approach, as he fingered the gold medal he was about to bestow, the Pope may have reflected momentarily upon just a few of the week's news items, indicative of the vast sphere which this intense, blue-eyed, light-haired Italo-Hibernian set in motion as a youth only 30 years ago. The Pope may have realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Italo-Hibernian | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...gloom of night shall stay these carriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," which is emblazoned in the stonework of the New York Post Office. "This is fine work for keeping a man in shape," declared Jack. "I haven't missed a day yet," he added with Hibernian earnestness, "and I don't ever intend to miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many of Harvard's Great Have Been Borne Mail by John Francis Dee--He Is Now Delivering to Second Generation | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

Fondly musing on the early days of football Mike said in his inimitable Hibernian dialect, which we dare not attempt to transliterate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michael Denihan, Groundskeeper and Factotum, Peers Into Past and Affirms, "There Were Giants in Those Days" | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

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