Word: irelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native Ireland tiny, bald, 38-year-old Playwright Carroll owes his thick brogue and the background for his plays. But to Scotland he owes his livelihood, and to the U. S. his fame...
...Ireland, though he has no wish to live in it-"I am not one of those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...
...then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies of a sporting book on a hand press at home. When he started The Derrydale Press in 1927, that was the sum of his publishing experience. The name Derrydale he got "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland...
After the style of Jonathan Swift's famous suggestion that the children of Ireland be eaten by the rich in order to relieve the poverty of that country, "A Modest Proposal" was circulated throughout the College yesterday which substituted the "outhousers of Claverly, Dudley, etc." for the Irish infants...