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...Owing to the action of Mr. de Valera, so much at variance with the temper and instinct of thousands of southern Irishmen, who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor, the approaches which the southern Irish ports and airfields could so easily have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with...
...familiar refrain came from South Bend: Notre Dame has another winner. In two games the Irish's unscored-on teen-agers had piled up 13 touchdowns, nine against Pittsburgh, four against Tulane.With the help of two bona fide Irishmen and a pair of trigger-armed passers, the Fighting Irish looked like champions as usual...
...John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
...this popular interest, and for his majority, De Valera had the U.S. Government to thank. Its recent pressure, reluctantly seconded by Britain, against Eire's neutrality had simply made Eire's Irishmen more devoted to their own belligerent neutrality than ever. Eamon de Valera symbolized neutrality and Eire's independence, hauled in the votes when the test came...
...Other Irishmen among Britain's top commanders: Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke...