Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police were quick. Riot calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew...
...days of rioting two people were killed, some 60 wounded. North Irish authorities including His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, and Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were bewildered by the violence of the outbreak, could not understand how normally law-abiding Ulstermen could be so aroused...
Died. The Hon. Katherine Plunket. Ill., oldest woman in the British Isles (she survived the reigns of George IV, William IV, Victoria and Edward VII. remembered Palmerston. Disraeli, Gladstone, and as a child sat on the knee of Sir Walter Scott); peacefully, of old age; in Ballymascanlon, County Louth, Ireland. Granddaughter of John W. Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, she would have no truck with automobiles, radios, phonographs, modern women, had "never heard of" George Bernard Shaw, eschewed "noise & vulgarity." She had been a pioneer Alpine climber, raised roses...
...committee consists of J. R. Fetcher '33, chairman; J. P. Coolidge '35, Frederick Ireland '33, E. K. Salls '34, and E. H. Vincent...
Another group of six lectures will be given by Professor Robinson on "Early Celtic Civilization" with the following single titles: 1. The Celtic Peoples. 2. and 3. The Heroic Age in Ireland (two lectures). 4. The Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland. 5. The Heroic Age in Wales. 6. Medieval Wales. This course is to open on January 12 and will continue each Thursday and Monday at 5 o'clock...