Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ireland: Good old Ireland! I have tried to hold up the flag for Ireland. I introduced a resolution to try to memorialize the whole wide world, if that could be done, to compel Great Britain to give to Ireland her undivided freedom. That is the way I feel. I take my freedom straight. I am like little Johnny. His teacher asked him. "How do you spell straight?" He said. "S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T." The teacher then asked. "What does it mean?" He said. "Without ginger ale." That is the way I take my freedom. I take...
...wasn't she? After a quick look at photographs of Princess Margaret and Husband Tony taken during her 32nd birthday party in Abbeyleix, Ireland last week. London's Daily Mirror assumed that she was, bannered: ANOTHER BABY FOR MARGARET. The princess' press officer, besieged by queries, refused to confirm or deny the story. "I simply don't know," he muttered. "To ask the princess herself would be impertinent...
...made a few trips to foreign lands, including the usual political Three-I' circuit: Ireland, Italy and Israel. And he went through the motions of serving for a few months in an appointive job as one of a score of assistant district attorneys in Boston...
...movement to preserve Gaelic is connected with a general nationalistic revival which seeks to retain Ireland's cultural distinctiveness. Professor O'Neill explains that there is a tendency for every small country to have its individualism obliterated by the influence of more powerful countries around it and that Ireland is in danger of becoming completely Anglicized. If this happens, the Gaelic language will be virtually extinct. This will mean, among other things, the loss in the original Gaelic to the general reading public of all of Ireland's ancient literature, the oldest north of the Alps. The Irish...
Whether the Gaelic language can be preserved in modern times is questionable. Many Irishmen who support the movement fear that it will fail. "It seems a forlorn hope," says Professor O'Neill, "but then everything about Ireland was a forlorn hope...