Word: kevin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle...
...list of signatories in full: Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Lord Birkenhead and C. S. Amery for the British Government; William T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins, Mr. Blythe and Mr. O'Byrne for the Free State ; and for Northern Ireland Sir James Craig and J. Blackmore, Secretary to tha Northern Ireland Cabinet...
...London went President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State Cabinet and Home Minister Kevin O'Higgins, there to meet Premier Sir "Jimmy" Craig of Ulster and his confreres in conference on the Irish boundary dispute...
...whom was thought to be Maj.-Gen. Tobin. (General Tobin had led an army "mutiny" against General Mulcahy's plans for demobilization). But General Tobin was not among the officers captured. The grim laugh was on General Mulcahy and he resigned. His place was filled by Home Minister Kevin O'Higgins acting for President Cosgrave who is ill. The problem of demobilizing the Free State army, thereby ousting patriotic soldiers from their jobs, remained to be solved...
Home Affairs.......................... Kevin O'Higgins...