Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith A.M. '24, assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, will study for the coming year in Dublin with the object of investigating the historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland...
Though not even Queen Victoria could concoct a more terrifying threat than this-that she might abdicate-the new series of letters is starred with innumerable dynamic and forceful passages, many urging that the most truculently repressive measures be taken against natives in India, Africa, Egypt or Ireland, where "the more one does for the Irish the more unruly and ungrateful they seem...
...world turns green today in honor of that famous snake-destroyer St. Patrick. In those capitals of Ireland, Boston and New York, green clad parades will tie up traffic for untold hours, shopkeepers of all sorts will adopt a thick brogue in self-protection from belligerent green partisans, and the green flag for a day supercedes all others...
Christopher Columbus passed as the Mayor cried: "There is the greatest man that ever lived. Except for him, I'd be in Ireland...
Droll was an adventure which befell last week, James Albert Edward Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn, since 1922 Governor of Northern Ireland. To his personal motor car the police of Belfast had just assigned a distinctive combination of lights, so that even at night instant right of way would be accorded to His Grace...