Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister, founded the Association of Civil Liberties to "educate the public on the rights of the individual." To be sure, the first meeting almost broke up in disorder when one man asked, "By what authority does the association claim the right to educate others?" But Irishmen still thought the association was a good idea. The sponsors felt that human rights and freedoms could not be taken for granted; they were worth thinking about. Perhaps it was as much worth doing as anything else that preoccupied people this spring...
...Irishmen here & there gave their opinions. Said Man-of-Letters Oliver St. John Gogarty, in Manhattan: "There's not much humor in the man Costello, but then there was not much humor in De Valera either." James Dillon might make up for that. Dillon, who used to say that Dev's agricultural policy was "no eggs, no poultry, no bacon, and damned little of anything else," became Costello's Minister for Agriculture. Arch-Nationalist Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta joined the coalition, became Minister for External Affairs...
...have married," he refrains because he knows that "in time she'd be bound to confess it. There is nothing a good-living woman likes better than to confess her husband's sins." And when this same unfortunate husband is asked by a continental European why respectable Irishmen don't kiss their brides in public, he doubtfully replies that "We don't go in much for that sort of thing . . . we're more in the sporting line-horses and dogs...
...Eyes Are Still Raised." He joined the Executive Committee of the United Irishmen when their ablest leaders were in prison or exile. Like the American revolutionaries, Emmet and his fellows pinned bright hopes on French military assistance. The British government, fully alert to this threat, had spies planted even in the top drawers of the French War Department...
...once the British were not the villains of the piece. And, with their favorite bait removed from the ring, most Irishmen were at a loss to tell what the fight was about at all. "This," wrote the Dublin correspondent of London's News Chronicle, as 1,800,000 Irishmen prepared to go to the polls this week, "is the strangest general election that ever took place. Nobody wants it. Nobody knows what it's about, and nobody, except the candidates, seems to care how it will...