Word: irish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Reading from Sheridan, Goldsmith, Boucicault, Gerald Griffin, Dooley, and other Irish writers in English and in the Brogue. Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...only other stories in the number are "Five Years After" by an anonymous writer, which is a rather pessimistic picture with an ostensible moral; and "Patsey" by R. A. Wood '03, a story of Irish squalor and wretchedness a trifle too realistic in detail...
...current number of the Monthly appeals strongly to the reader at the start. "The Story of John Reilly, Teamster," which is signed "1883" is a vivid sketch based on a tragedy of family life--the mistaken striving of an Irish girl toward a life which was too dazzling for her ignorance to resist, and the savage grief of her disappointed brother. "In the Thirsty Land" by Rowland Thomas takes its color from the South African war, but it is by no means a common place treatment. Simple pathos is interwoven with a powerful description of the mazes of a wounded...
...Abuse of Property" by Roosevelt. In his selection from Coppee, "The Benediction," Thomson attempted an entirely different type of piece--with success. Of those to win second prizes, Holmes gave "The Death of Lincoln" by Phillips Brooks; Grossman, part of Daniel O'Connell's speech on the Irish Disturbance Bill; and Minard, a selection from Sienkiewicz, "The Rescue of Lygia in the Arena...
...Grossman '02, "On the Irish Disturbances Bill," Daniel 'O'Connell...