Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish Free State. Last week, as he terminated his U. S. visit (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.) and prepared to sail from Manhattan on the White Star liner Olympic, Mr. Cosgrave frankly said about his title what is known to every Englishman but perhaps not to every Irishman...
...Irishman answering to this description is expected to arrive at Manhattan on January 18th, in the premiere suite of the S. S. Homeric. He is William Thomas Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State. "I cross the Atlantic," he said last week, "on a simple, non-political mission of thanks to the American people.... For many years, during our struggle for Irish independence, we received more than $15,000,000 from America every Christmas . . . . It is due in no small measure to America that our long drawn out struggle ... was brought to a successful issue .-. . . Besides thanking the American people...
...bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just why, I don't know) that a friend of mine was telling me only the other day of a little incident which befell him on an European tour. It seems that there were three men, an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a (pardon...
President Cosgrave's reply was stinging. With his fists clenched, his body trembling with suppressed rage and his face pale with passion, he denied Sean O'Kelley's charges and insinuations and defended his policy. "I yield to no one as an Irishman in my love for Ireland," he snapped. "For five years I have been working here in the interests of ... a free, independent Irish nation...
...these five will be selected for the team of four is not yet decided. Their form on the fast U. S. fields will determine the matter. One other, however, will probably swing a British mallet when the team takes the field. He is Capt. C. T. I. Roark, an Irishman, connected with the British Army in India merely by reason of his membership in the reserve corps. Captain Atkinson and Manager Tomkinson must decide before September, when the matches are scheduled, whether the team works better as a unit when composed of four men who have played through a whole...