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...best of Séan O'Faoláin's stories belong with those of Chekhov. This 48-year-old Irishman, born in Cork, fought in Ireland's Civil War and afterwards, in Midsummer Night Madness, wrote a series of haunting stories about it. They had the hard authenticity of firsthand pictures of war and revolution, with none of the drab, repetitious prose that is now almost a trademark of war novels. His themes were as subtle as Turgenev's, with clear and vivid pictures of action, but the distinction of his work was its fine...
Take That. For a mild man, and the begetter of Friendship Trains, Drew Pearson has had more drawn-out feuds than an Irishman could shake a shillelagh at. The loudest was the one with Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, which started when Tydings called for. a Senate investigation of father Paul Pearson's regime as governor of the Virgin Islands...
...course it was an Irishman who said: "Naturally the sun never sets on the British Empire. Who would trust it in the dark...
...that night at the family dinner table with two younger Conways-Terry and Neil-kibitzing. He ticked off Tommy's weaknesses: slow getaways, too much use of elbows, getting sucked out of position. "You got to get smarter," Jerry pounded home. Tim Sr., an Irishman who believes that athletics is the best thing that can happen to a boy, admitted that Tommy was lackadaisical. Under that kind of tutoring, Tommy soon perked up and played better...
...rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor of trees, or any having access to an ax who did not cut down all the trees within his reach...