Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Jack (Andreas Teuber) is less convincing. He has all of the pay-cock's swagger, color, and noise--and just a bit too much of this last: do all Irishmen shout quite as much as the ones on the Loeb stage?--but he has so little of the necessary humor. He probably shouts simply to obscure his brogue which is obscure, but my goodness, man, that's no way to tell a joke. Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin...
...Quare Fellow. Brendan Behan, like most Irishmen, laughs hardest when he hurts worst, and in this movie version of his first successful play he laughs at the way men are made to live, and condemned to die, in an average Irish prison...
Died. John Cardinal D'Alton, So, Archbishop of Armagh and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a noted ancient historian (Horace and His Age), and spiritual father to 3,284,331 Irishmen, who long worked quietly for political union between the Irish Republic and the six British counties of Northern Ireland, was instrumental in ending the I.R.A.-inspired bloodshed between his countrymen on the divided island; of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...this inspiration that motivated Simón Bolivar and José de San Martin in freeing the states of South America from the dead hand of colonial Spain, forged modern Germany out of a score of principalities, unified fragmented Italy with Cavour's leadership. Under this glorious banner, Irishmen and Poles and Czechs fought and died to achieve their nationhood. Its spirit was reflected in the name of the Irish revolutionary society Sinn Fein (We Ourselves...
Whether the Gaelic language can be preserved in modern times is questionable. Many Irishmen who support the movement fear that it will fail. "It seems a forlorn hope," says Professor O'Neill, "but then everything about Ireland was a forlorn hope...