Word: irish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reward. - The above reward will be paid to the finder of a brown Irish frieze cape overcoat. Call or address, B. C. 44 Matthews Hall...
...course a "soft snap." It would have to be managed very shrewdly, so that there would be plenty of work somewhere, even if Russia took it into her head not to advance further into central Asia, if Germany suddenly decided not to extend her colonies, and if the whole Irish question suddenly ceased by Gladstone's yielding what is demanded of him. History pauses sometimes...
...England is now brought face to face with the ever-occurring problem of government for Ireland. A ministry of but a few months' life has fallen; the incoming ministry promises to last but little longer. It seems as if the question of Home Rule must now be settled. The Irish are resolute and under able leaders. The English are in a quandary. Plucky Greece is asserting some of her old time independence. She will resist the encroachments of Turkey, and has politely informed the powers of Europe that she will accept no arbitration from them. What will be the outcome...
...follies and mistaken theories of the protectionists, often prefacing their remarks with the observation that really educated men can not possibly believe in protection. The protectionists, on the other hand, appeal to the tender side of their hearers' nature, and tell pitiful tales of the wretched condition of the Irish peasantry, and the natives of India,-all caused, as they say, by the introduction of free trade. When they turn their attention to this country, both fall into the same error. The protectionists calmly lay the whole prosperity of the country since the late war to the existence...
Boswell at length married an Irish lady, for the sole reason, so far as I can discover, that she was willing to marry him; this was so unusual a chance that he appears to have embraced it eagerly. His marriage, however, did not radically change him, and we are not surprised to read, a year after, in a brief letter written on a journey, that: "There is a Miss Silverton in the fly with me, an amiable creature who has been in France. I can unite little fondnessess with conjugal love." Boswell must have been a unique sort of travelling...