Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sean O'Coileain, a native speaker of Irish, will become the chairman of the only university department in the country devoted solely to Celtic languages and literatures...
Earlier in the century, the state was heavily Republican, voting for the GOP through 1928. In 1924, the state offered up the Republican's Republican. Calvin Coolidge. As the largely Irish Democrats gained strength from the first Irish Catholic Presidential candidate, Al Smith in 1928, and the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the two parties fought to a stalemate in the state through the fifties...
...root of the discussion are the strong ethnic and historical loyalties different groups of voters have had toward the parties. The Yankee Protestants, allied with the Republican party, had historically opposed the Irish Catholic immigrants, who found political voice in the Democratic party...
...deep resentment toward the Irish immigrants led to deep religious, cultural, and economic divisions between the parties--division which, for the most part, were non-ideological. During the mid-part of the century, Republican Senators like Leverett Saltonstall often advocated a liberal internationalism combined with a deep concern for social and environmental concerns...
DIED. Liam O'FIaherty, 88, powerful and prolific Irish novelist and short-story writer, whose tales of desperate men, failed traditions and spiritual torment (The Black Soul, The House of Gold, Famine) combined brutally modern realism and wild lyricism; in Dublin. His best-known work, The Informer (1925), was filmed three times, most notably in 1935 by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen...