Word: limericks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Valera quickly recovered from the shock he had received and was removed to Limerick jail and later to Dublin. At all times he was heavily guarded...
...Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Republican Army was wounded seriously by Free State troops near Newcastle, County Limerick. He died a few hours later. Thus ends the life of one of the most powerful Republican leaders...
...Irish Free State. Like the treaty between England and Sinn Fein this settlement was signed quite suddenly at a crisis of Irish affairs. Since the speeches of Collins and De Valera, in a sort of Lincoln-Douglas series, early in March, conditions have grown steadily worse, particularly in Limerick and about Belfast, until finally they assumed almost the dimensions of a reign of terror, during which the Extremists and the Ulsterites rapidly extended their influence at the expense of the Dail Eireann forces...
Whether or no the limerick is to be Gased among the accepted forms of verse it seem of appeal ot at least a spirt of the reading public as is indicated by the republication of Florence H. Garliner's "The smiile on the Face of the Tiger under the new title of "Limstricks...