Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This statement did not exaggerate, and the task of taming Ireland's "wild men" fell to 28-year-old Kevin O'Higgins. At one time the new Free State had to employ an army of 40,000 men to put down that violence which had become second nature to Irishmen. Firmness was needed and Mr. O'Higgins proved himself capable of making bold, salutary decisions with the quickness of a steel trap. His enemies became innumerable. His success in quieting Ireland and restoring the police power earned him a title: "Ireland's Strongest...
...everyone knows, Mr. Cosgrave is "President" only of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. He is thus, actually, the "Prime Minister" of a "Cabinet" His office is deliberately misnamed "President" to give Irishmen a sense of greater freedom. They, no fools, are prone to remember that the similarly misnamed "Irish Free State" is presided over by His Britannic Majesty's Governor-General, Timothy Michael Healy, author of the tract "Why Ireland Is Not Free...
Observers awaited eagerly the assembly of the new Dail. There was always the chance that Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail deputies would try to enter without taking the oath-a move often threatened never attempted, and sure to lead to many a cracked Irish crown. Sober-minded Irishmen hoped that Mr. Cosgrave would consent to carry on, as before, with the readily obtainable support of the "neutral" parties...
...baseball when his contract as Manager of the Giants expires in 1929. On that "some day" Coogan's Bluff will lose its nabob, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (see p. 16) will lose an old neighbor and Manhattan will lose one of its most significant Irishmen...
...scholarship, of which he needed and exercised much in this book, comes from the old universities at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig. His way with words and occupation with matters spiritual are natural to a North-Irelander, born though he was in Manhattan. His last book, a novel for Irishmen called Hangman's House, sold tremendously to U. S. people of all extractions. Brother Saul, a Christian epos, is aimed at men of all faiths