Word: irelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just go years ago, he said, an ambitious youngster fresh from Ireland named Andrew Charles opened a plain grocery store on the corner of Orchard and Delancey Streets, Manhattan. His cousin George soon joined him. In the late 505 the pair moved way uptown (22nd Street) to cater to the carriage trade. As the city grew, George urged moving again; Andrew wanted to stay near Gramercy Park. George moved, Andrew stayed. George proved the wiser, for the very year he set up on 43rd Street, Grand Central Station moved right across the street, and his store flourished...
...author of these stories was a brilliant Irishman born of English parents. Although a high-ranking clergyman, he had no scruples about expressing his opinions in the most vigorous style. He did not like the predatory practices of English land-owners in Ireland. So he penned "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known...
...Killarney, Ireland, a tailor produced in court a note of commendation from George Bernard Shaw as evidence of his skill. Interposed the judge: "I've noticed that Mr. Shaw wears the most appalling clothes...
...Keep your local parliament, with its local powers, if you wish," Eamon de Valera told Ulster. "The Government of Eire is willing to forego the ideal solution of having one parliament only. We are willing for Northern Ireland to have its own local legislature in Belfast-providing Northern Ireland representatives enter an All-Ireland Parliament at Dublin...
...sprightly Irish Marquess of Donegall, who writes a London gossip column, this week vouched that Prime Minister Lord Craigavon had told him: "We have learned in Northern Ireland to place no value whatever in Mr. de Valera's promises or guarantees. They are valueless in Ulster. We in Ulster feel it is time to put an end to Mr. de Valera's activities. . . . Under no circumstances whatever will we listen to the rattling of the sabre or, for that matter, to the cooing of the dove where the integrity of Ulster is concerned. . . . Any attempt to meet...