Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew 2,400 miles without seeing land. The greatest over-water distance of the Atlantic flights is the 1,800 miles between Newfoundland and Ireland...
Minister Smiddy's large Irish audience must have recalled the vile, unlighted, peat-huts in which some of them were born. Into these, electric light! The old Ireland passes...
...Smiddy, dynamic, told convincingly that new Ireland is rushing forward much in the manner of new Italy. "Forty-nine new factories have been created within 24 months. . . . Fourteen thousand houses have been built or are building, and $7,500,000 has been expended to better housing conditions ... By the Land Act of 1923 very many farmers were enabled to purchase the land they had been working under favorable terms. Thus the last vestige of landlordism has been removed...
...Cabinet" His office is deliberately misnamed "President" to give Irishmen a sense of greater freedom. They, no fools, are prone to remember that the similarly misnamed "Irish Free State" is presided over by His Britannic Majesty's Governor-General, Timothy Michael Healy, author of the tract "Why Ireland Is Not Free...
...hour later I saw land. I have forgotten just what time it was. It must have been shortly after 4 o'clock. It was rocky land and all my study told me it was Ireland. And it was Ireland...