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About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Merry Christmas | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Most spectacular I. R. A. activity took place in Londonderry Jail in Northern Ireland. There, 45 imprisoned Irishmen closed their section of the prison and proceeded to set their bedding afire and smash the furniture. A crowd soon gathered outside, while the men inside sang Irish Republican songs, shouted Republican slogans and displayed Republican flags and placards out of the windows. One placard read: "England is the champion of freedom. Is this freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Merry Christmas | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Most U. S. song hits are made in the U. S. But last week two imported tunes were leading the U. S. field: 1) the Czech Beer Barrel Polka (550,000 copies sold to date); 2) South of the Border, a song about Mexico by two London Irishmen (Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr) who have never been there (over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best Sellers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Ward 6 the voters called upon two fighting Irishmen, City Councilor Michael A. Sullivan and William (Call me 'BIH') Flanagan to continue their scrapping for the council seat until the final election on Tuesday, November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALBERT MAGUIRE IS NOMINATED FOR SEAT ON COUNCIL | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

...Passed a bill (twitting the State Department) to relieve aliens (such as Irishmen) from swearing allegiance to their former rulers (such as George VI) upon applying for U. S. citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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