Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crown, Family & Horses. She takes seriously her task of being Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Queen of Canada, Queen of Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Ghana and South Africa-and in manner she grows increasingly queenly. Not long ago a palace official who has known her since childhood leaned his arm on a mantel in Her Majesty's presence. "Are you tired?" she asked. He replied: "No, ma'am. Why?" Said Elizabeth: "Because I think you should stand up straight when you are talking to me." She runs her royal household strictly-and with a clear awareness...
Britain and Northern Ireland, Elizabeth II does her Commonwealth job. She has assigned Marlborough House as a meeting place for Commonwealth representatives, and when a conference is held in London, she invites each Commonwealth Prime Minister at least once to a private audience. At her coronation, Elizabeth wore a special gift from Commonwealth members: gold armils, or bracelets, a royal emblem that had not been used in a coronation since the 16th century...
...politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin, 65, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," the man who in the Great Trouble "refused to have an anesthetic while having an English bullet removed from his body for fear that while unconscious he might betray his comrades," had all the proper credentials for Irish politics. But the fact...
...Ireland ringing with Parnell's cry: "No man has a right to fix a boundary to the march of a nation." A soft-spoken teacher of math who later joined the Sinn Fein (We Ourselves), "Dev" is still credited by legend with being the last rebel patriot to surrender during the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, and with being one of only 13 scholars who understood Einstein's theory of relativity...
...Blackymor," he was a scarred African Negro called James Montgomery-Majoribanks, who traveled about western Ireland peddling patent medicine. White hired the medicine man, who doubles as a masseur, to unstiffen the rusted joints of two rheumatic old villagers. The healing scene is comical, but writing of it, White manages to convey the dignity of the two crippled ancients and the courage of the lonely, ridiculous African. The story ends with a clink and a gurgle. "Our faces glowing with liquor, our eyes more flashing, our tongues volubly tripping and repeating, we had great concert of talk and narrative, admiring...