Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur...
...many an Irishman believed differently. Barnes and Richards were members of the Irish Republican Army, which, on & off for more than a year, has carried on a campaign of terrorism in Great Britain. Their aim was to end the partition of Ireland and to join to independent, Catholic Eire the six counties of predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland that still swear allegiance to the British Crown. To their compatriots, Peter Barnes and James Richards were far from ordinary criminals. They were Ireland's latest martyrs for whose death the hated British would some day pay in kind. Even as Barnes...
Builder is Andrew Jackson Higgins, a 55-year-old Irishman, born in Omaha. An old Mississippi River racer, Higgins went after the record of the legendary river steamer Robert E. Lee for the 1,200-mile upriver run from New Orleans to St. Louis. In 1929 he broke it in his spoon-bow motorboat, And How III. Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon...
Michael A. Sullivan is father of nine, a truck drivers' boss, a member of the Cambridge (Mass.) City Council and a fighting Irishman. Mr. Sullivan mortally hates & fears Communism. A year ago, in his zeal to stamp it out, he fist-brawled with Harvard undergraduates. Last week reckless Mr. Sullivan introduced, and his Council unanimously passed, a resolution directing that the words Lenin and Leningrad be expunged from every piece of printed matter in Cambridge, but failed to say what would happen if they were not. Stalin was not mentioned, nor Stalingrad, nor Communism...