Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday they set out, the Mayor in a third-class coach, for Ireland, birthplace of Mr. Walker's father. Their boat-train stopped at the Welsh town of Llanfairpwyllcylghlantsillohogh, which not even the glib Walker tongue could surround. Welcomed in Dublin as a homeboy, the Mayor of New York admitted that his eyes were full of tears; but he retained enough presence of mind to tell reporters that if they asked him about Irish politics he would "throw them out of the window." He sped to the paternal home, Castlecomer; waved at babies and grannies, made a speech...
...status with the states of the British Commonwealth of Nations; recognition of "His Britannic Majesty" as the head of the association. This, said Mr. de Valera will bring the "Republic to the brow of the precipice." His proposals were refused, however. They meant, in effect, a separate sovereignty for Ireland instead of recognizing the common citizenship of the Commonwealth. Such conditions were not acceptable to the London government...
Last fall the status was revised and it now meets all Mr. de Valera's conditions. The last Imperial Conference* (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.), by changing the King's title gave Ireland nominal full sovereignty within the Commonwealth; for by that decision George V became as much King of Ireland as he is King of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. Today Irishmen in the Free States who are loyal to the treaty toast the King not as the English monarch but as the King of Ireland...
...oath: "I, Eamon De Valera, do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty, King George V, his heirs and successors by law, in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the group of nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Great Britain and Ireland 1,390,388 841,338 Germany 407,620 148,851 Italy 226,774 287,346 Holland 171,825 148,245 United States 146,846 133,268 France 136,474 153,955 Denmark...