Word: liffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scribbled poster: "King George recognizes Republic!" Shouts of "Good Old George" mingled with those of "Up the Republic!" Mused a smiling Dublin policeman: "Times have changed. If that auld one had sung 'God Save the King' a few years ago, she would have finished up in the Liffey...
...caretaker of St. Malachy's Court wasn't sure how to explain the fact that his flats teemed with children. Said he: "Some say it's the sea air or the Liffey or potatoes, and more that it's just contrariness...
...they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich lingo of Juno and the Paycock, the legendary and the tragic, real Ireland of The Plough and the Stars, run through his pages like the River Liffey through Dublin...
...noon each day most of the kids were sitting with their legs dangling over the lapping River Liffey or ranged in ranks on the steps of staid Georgian houses in the professional district, peaceably munching sandwich lunches...
Shortly he was blindfolded again, taken to the banks of the Liffey and threatened with drowning. In July an I.R.A. court-martial questioned him all one afternoon and night, sentenced him to death. For ten days his legs were chained and padlocked. Early this month three of his captors shoved him into a car, started through the city. Stephen Hayes managed to seize one of their guns with his manacled hands and pitch himself into the street...