Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caused in awaiting the arrival of the Chairman. The appointment of Sir Adrian Knox, Chief Justice of Australia, to a committee of the Privy Council was also announced. Sir Adrian and his colleagues are to determine what legal course is to be taken in the event of Northern Ireland continuing to refuse to nominate its member on the Boun-'dary Commission. The North was again displeased, apparently because it fears that an unfavorable decision by the Council would be binding. The resignation of Premier Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland was forecast by political observers, but such an event...
...criticism, or the Hacketts, or John Butler Yeats, whose death last year took from us one of the most delightful personalities of Greenwich Village, or Dudley Digges and J. M. Kerrigan, actors both from the Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern writer of fairy stories in my opinion and a poet of eminence, a novelist, an essayist, a playwright...
...born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there were still traditional singers and traditional story-tellers gave him a grounding in the speech and thoughts of folk writing. At 18 he was a clerk in a railway office. Before twenty, he was writing plays...
...purpose of discussing new plans for the settlement of the Irish Boundary dispute (TIME, June 2), Premier MacDonald invited to Chequers Court President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State and Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland...
...hers which has the appearance of sheer boredom, while Miss Leitch, nervous before the start, gritted her teeth, stuck out her chin, and played with obvious fire and determination." Such was the cabled description of the fifth round of the British women's open golf championship at Portrush, Ireland. Joyce Wethered, "cool and collected," took the match from her older opponent by 6 up and 4 to play. Later she took the final round (7 & 6) from Mrs. F. Cautley "who was bothered by rain...