Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casey sees the Plough and Stars (the flag of the IRA) from the window of a Dublin flat, and through women's eyes. This view of the Easter Revolution was cynical enough to cause riots when it first was staged. In O'Casey's portrayal, the Irishmen in the Citizen Army died shitting with fear; their wives went mad trying to keep them safe at home. The only heroes in The Plough and Stars are those who neither fight nor spout rhetoric: Fluther Good, the working man whose honest dignity defies the British to do their worst, though...
...early Christian legend said that Irishmen were so pious that a rich, beautiful maiden could travel the length of the island unmolested...
...some captured English officer. Word of Allen's fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
...tendency would be to escape, if only for a moment, from present realities and journey instead into a more glorious past, into a time when the Flora twins were still nothing more than one-half of the landscape, when the immigration laws imposed a quota upon the number of Irishmen allowed enter Providence, and a time when Lions and Quakers weren't able to run quite as fast as they...
Dateline Cambridge/New Haven: Last week while gridironers from Harvard and Yale were running through their early fall practices tuning up for their "preseason" schedule in final preparation for The Game, a band of bawdy Irishmen descended from the hinterlands (Chestnut Hill and South Bend, Ind.) and staged a coup. Boston College versus Notre Dame; the Game...