Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of agreement between President Cosgrave of Ireland and his bitter opponent De Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein, has been a common desire to see Gaelic culture and the Gaelic language predominant in the newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition; and Welsh, which is still the only language of some hundred thousand people, has become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China...
...sped hurriedly last week on his brief U. S. tour (TIME Jan. 16 and 23). Cheered and harkened to by Irish folk in Manhattan and Chicago, he was afterwards received at Washington by President Coolidge. Throughout the week he popped sayings, some humorous, some sage. "The liquor situation in Ireland is fine. We produce the best whiskey in the world. None other can compare with...
Asked whether the Irish Free State would ever become a Republic,* he parried : "That is a question to be put to the people of Ireland rather than to me. They now have political freedom; it is up to them to decide what their government shall...
Irish Chicagoans were titillated thus: "No city in the history of the world has been so libeled. The citizens seem to me to be more Irish than we are in Ireland and at the same time first class, tiptop American citizens. . . . Ireland is the mother, America the wife...
...history of English legal polity is replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding...