Word: jackdaw
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Jackdaw...
With incidents quite as frequent and action and action quite as rapid came Lady Gregory's play, "The Jackdaw." A jackdaw, it should be premised, is a bird. Michael Cooney, out of goodness of heart, would rescue Mrs. Broderick, his old time friend, from the throes of debt. He tries to do so discreetly by entrusting for her ten pounds with Joseph Nestor, who cannot resist, when he sees Mrs. Broderick return from the court, giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole...