Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then, fighting Irishman Nesbitt has proved that Protestant schisms are no insuperable barrier to united Protestant action. He has pushed St. George's original 500 police membership to more than 3,000. Like their Holy Name colleagues, St. George members are required to attend church each Sunday, receive Holy Communion regularly, refrain from swearing and indecent language, be "polite, courteous and gentlemanly" at all times...
...Some etymologists trace the term to another Irishman named Hooley, whose gang became known as the Hooley-gang. Still others connect it vaguely with a notorious thug named Muldoon whose name spelled backwards reads "noodlum"; hence hoodlum and hooligan...
...written sometimes in straightaway English, sometimes in lyrical doubletalk like that of the earlier James Joyce. The subject is his grimmest, bitterest, pre-playwright years: the 15 years or so up to and including the 1916 Easter Week Rising. Like almost any good book written by a good Irishman about those days, Drums is at bottom sentimental and romantic, but the resemblance to the standard stops about there. O'Casey is no standard Irishman; he lives in England, is a Communist,* obviously has no great affection for the powers at Maynooth or Dublin Castle. But he remembers affectionately...
Shaw & Larkin. One day a friend told him about Bernard Shaw: "the cleverest Irishman the world knows, Sean. A wit of wonder. A godsend to men who try to think." Another day he listened to Jim Larkin talk at Liberty Hall in Dublin-about the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, the "red flag rather than the green banner...
Died. Colonel (Kentucky style) Daniel E. O'Sullivan, 88, onetime managing edi tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, long time resident manager of famed Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby; in Louisville. He frequently boosted the Derby in verse ("Any Irishman who couldn't write poetry about a thorough bred horse ought to be chloroformed"), once said that TIME'S description of the Downs as "shabby" made him "Reach for his hip pocket...