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Bridget and Katie Costello, Jimmy Carroll, Jimmy McNally, Petie and Bridget Riley had died in various Southern towns since May 1, 1937. Their bodies had been shipped to undertakers in the vicinity, to be kept against the next spring buryings. When the last April mule market closed, the Irishmen put their families into their cars, mostly new ones with trailers, and set out for Mrs. Robertson's. They maintain stoutly that they are not a clan, just a large group of countrymen with a common trade. No one knows how the meetings started, but they have been going...
...latest reports Irishmen had not yet officially protested the omission of Eire from Eagle Pencil's map. The map omits among others the name of Czechoslovakia, makes the meridian of Greenwich, from which all time and longitude are reckoned, pass through Paris, France, not through Greenwich, England...
...public might for once be right. Bookies, like frightened stockbrokers, forced odds down to 8-to-1 to save their skins. Among knowing racegoers, however, the most likely winners were considered to be Royal Mail, winner last year; Delachance, the likeliest American-owned starter; and Cooleen, hope of Irishmen because she ran second last year...
...since more than a year ago when crowds of milling Englishmen chanted "We want King Edward!" had stodgy Downing Street seen such a demonstration. Thousands of London's Irishmen and Irishwomen packed the pavement before the black door of No. 10. The rousing strains of southern Ireland's republican anthem, A Soldier's Song, swelled from the lusty throats. Staid civil servants in black jackets and striped trousers poked their heads out Whitehall's windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared...
...British side of the long Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling monologues or rattled the ghost of Cromwell as he did at previous Anglo...