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...Irishmen have always liked to carry clubs, liked to use them in a fight. Their national game, hurling, gives them a chance to do both. The object of hurling is to belabor a lively little leather-covered ball down a 140-yard field into a goal. Each goal has a cross bar eight feet high; when the ball goes under the cross bar, it counts 3 points; over it counts 1. The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys." Their resemblance to shinny sticks has caused hurling to be thought of as a form of field...
Hurling is a national game because it is played by all Irishmen and by no one else. The game is so old that no one knows how it started; perhaps it began when two Irishmen fought with clubs for possession of a potato and their neighbors took sides. There was hurling in Ireland a thousand years ago and it has been played ever since. Until fairly recently, the whole male population of a town or a village might take part in a game. A few rules and regulations were introduced when the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed...
...Only one body was found. The "Porra" ranks high among the various things for which Cubans curse Gerardo Machado. It is a band of criminals who have been pardoned, let out of jail and armed to help put down the revolution. Cubans spoke of the "Porra" last week as Irishmen spoke of the Black & Tans...
...walked to the scaffold in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin at dawn last week. Outside the gates a morbid crowd cursed the Irish police that hanged him. It was not that they thought David O'Shea innocent, but to the Irish mind he had been caught by unfair means. Irishmen expect sportsmanship in their policemen...
Ever since the 18th Century, the U. S. has been a land of hope for poverty-stricken Irishmen eager to leave their tax-ridden bogs. But last week Irish Free State officials announced that in the first six months of 1931 only 476 persons emigrated to the U. S. from the Irish Free State, compared to 868 for the corresponding period in 1930. U. S. emigrants to the Free State totalled 1,080 in that period against 621 for the first six months...