Word: irelands
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...post as bishop of Rochester by Francis Cardinal Spellman, he also proved that he is still a quick man with the ad lib. Asked how it felt to leave New York City and settle among the greener pastures of Rochester, Sheen replied: "There is a certain road in Ireland where it rains on one side and is all sunshine on the other. It forms a perfect rainbow. The tears are in New York and the sunshine in Rochester for my rainbow...
From Nora, Joyce demanded continual proofs of love. The major one, right at the outset, was that she leave Ireland with him as his mistress in 1904. They were finally married in 1931, but only to make sure that Joyce's family could legally claim his estate. Nora gave in full measure the affection and companionship that Joyce so desperately needed, but she could make nothing of his work. The first copy of Ulysses was given Nora, but she never got around to reading the book...
Though he fled Ireland-that "sow that eats its own litter"-Joyce was never far from home in thought. His loving hatred for it burned fiercely till he died. He was, as Ellmann puts it neatly and memorably, "a Parnell...
Died. Sean O'Kelly, 84, President of the Republic of Ireland from 1945 to 1959, whose pixyish personality and dandy dress suited him well for his ceremonial office, particularly on a two-week visit to the U.S. in 1959, when he blarneyed all the boyos and bussed all the colleens, saying to his wife "Look at this one, dear, isn't she grand?"; after a long illness; in Dublin...
...rate was surpassed by Hungary (26.8), Austria (21.7), Czechoslovakia (21.3), Finland (19.2), West Germany (18.5), Denmark (19.1), Sweden (18.5), Switzerland (16.8), Japan (16.1) and France (15.5). England's suicide rate is a little above that of the U.S. Far below them both are the rates of Italy (5.3), Ireland (2.5) and Egypt (0.1), although such figures are often misleading...