Word: longford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Kitty Kiernan of Longford, Ireland, onetime fiancee of the late Michael Collins, to General Felix Cronin, Irish soldier. Three former fiances, all soldiers, have met violent deaths. The first, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot in her father's inn; the second and the third (the famed Collins) were shot during the summer of 1922 by Irish Republicans...
Colum has a romantic background, a background that is reflected in every word he writes, in the lilt of his voice, in the motions of his hands, in the occasionally fiery manner of his conversation. He was born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there...