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...before you other readers turn away with an aside about lucky Irishmen, you had better try to find your name in the list below. There's still $1800 that is not going to the clan of Murphy, and it will be divided among men with the following names: Baxendale, Borden, Downer, Haven, and Hudson...
...Iron Age not until 100 A. D. From then until the Anglo-Norman conquests (12th Century) the Irish lived in wicker huts, wooden houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being explored is a royal crannog where Irish kings held court for two centuries. To get a complete picture of Irishmen old & new, Harvard scientists are making anthropological measurements and sociological observations of thousands of living inhabitants. The whole project is directed by Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooton (TIME, March 30 et ante...
...Irishmen, by & large, are poor sailors but excellent admirals. The late Earl Beatty was an Irish admiral. So is Edward VIII's chief naval aide-de-camp, Admiral Sir William ("Ginger") Boyle. Irish Dramatist Lord Dunsany's brother, Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and the principal naval aide-de-camp to George V was an Admiral Kelly...
Dandered but not dashed, Yeats sought friendlier advice, found it, and decided to publish his verses and his play. Readers will be glad he did, but will find his prose comments more moving and less obscure. In them he complains, like all good Irishmen, of Ireland-thinks it a crying shame that the distinguished Irish Academy should have to meet in a hired room (five shillings a night), bewails the modern Irish spirit ("our upper class cares nothing for Ireland except as a place for sport . . . the rest of the population is drowned in religious and political fanaticism"), sees darker...
...Irishmen would have it that last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...