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...Galloper" who tamed wild Irishmen, to scathing "F. E.," master of acrid but urbane debate in both Houses of Parliament, to Great Britain's youngest Lord Chancellor, to the great and frankly snobbish Earl of Birkenhead whose aristocracy was that of "first class brains," came last week a strangely gentle Death...
Last week, back in Manhattan, she reported to her clothed, monogamous, scientific fellow Caucasians on the naked superstitious, polygamous and polyandrous New Irishmen. Shocking to vegetarians were her tales of petty island wars of which she said : "The causes of these wars generally were women and pigs. If a neighboring tribe would steal . . . there would be a war. The older natives refer to them as 'The good old days.' Only fallen enemies would be eaten as delicacy prevented consumption of friends...
Other social customs observed by Dr. Powdermaker: a husband is forbidden to speak to his mother-in-law, mention her in public, enter a room which she occupies. Having no conception of time the New Irishmen's night life is governed solely by the moon. On bright nights they carouse mightily, disport themselves happily. Particularly happy are they when someone dies or is born when the moon is full. Such events are celebrated with feasts which frequently get out of control and last for a month...
...Without the Mace it is doubtful whether the House can sit with authority, and a story is recalled of how the late T. P. O'Connor revealed a plot among Irishmen to seize the Mace and throw it into the Thames. Yet, bitter as the Irish passions were then, no Irishman ever touched the Mace...
Such exciting letters as only hopping-mad, cussing-mad Irishmen can write poured in by the mailbagful last week upon Dublin's brindle-bearded George William Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object...