Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...umpteenth and last time Northern Ireland refused to nominate a delegate to represent her on the Irish Boundary Commission (TIME, May 5, et seq.). Furthermore, it was stated that whatever the decision of the Boundary Commission is, the North will demand an appeal...
Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland. Northern Ireland claims that the six counties Armagh, Antrim, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone) which form her territory, were delimited in the Government of Ireland Act of 1920; that the boundary between the Free State and Northern Ireland (cause of all the trouble) was therefore fixed and agreed to by the North and the Parliament at Westminster...
...Irish Free State, which was not a party to the Government of Ireland Act, and which came into existence by virtue of the Free State (Agreement) Act of 1922, sees the whole matter in a different light. In the Act which recorded her birth, the Free State bartered for the establishment of a boundary commission to fix finally the border line between the two Irish states. To this Act the Northern Government was not a party and has firmly declined to admit the legality of a boundary commission...
When Englishmen and Irishmen had brought about something resembling Irish peace in 1922, many thought that recurrent Irish turmoils would be matters for the Irish to settle. Britain had washed her hands of Ireland. But the conflicting treaties have injected the Irish question into British politics to such an extent that it is one of the cardinal issues to be discussed in the next session of Parliament...
...McCormick, senior U. S. Senator from Illinois; Dr. George V. Butte, Republican opponent of "Ala" Ferguson for Governor of Texas. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Olympic (White Star)-Viscount Wimborne, onetime Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1915-18), the principal financial backer of the British In- ternational Polo Team. On the Mauretania (Cunard)-Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the eminent publisher. On the Paris (French)-Reginald C. Vanderbilt, famed clubman; Ring Lardner, professional humorist...