Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fremdgen, Langi Kavaliku, Warren Young, Charlie Rowe, and Neil Sclater-Booth will lead the team against New York's combination of Irishmen, Englishmen, Canadians, and Americans. Dick O'Neill, President of the Rugby Club, will be unable to play because of injuries...
Delinquent Irishmen. "Let's forget about Mayor Wagner for a few moments and listen to the man who was mayor of New York in 1825. He wrote in his diary: 'One of the evidences of the degeneracy of our morals and of the inefficiency of our police is to be seen in the frequent instances of murder by stabbing. The city is infested by gangs of hardened wretches.' One doesn't have to look very far to see whom Philip Hone blames for this distress: Irishmen, 'the most ignorant and consequently the most obstinate white...
...controversy over Kennedy reminds me of the Irishman, weary of the long feud between Catholics and Protestants in his country, who cried, "Would that all Irishmen were atheists so that we could live together like Christians...
...hearts and minds of Irishmen he was still "The Long" Fella"-the gangling, imperious young rebel commandant whose gallantry and skill during the Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view...
...some weeks the temptation to tell my own English muffin story, but feel unable to do so any longer. while studying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I occasionally ate at a cafe run by a number of hyphenated-Americans who have origins ultimately traceable to Ireland. The customers, too, were mostly "Irishmen...