Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as for the first time since 1799 Palm Sunday and St. Patrick's Day came together, there were ominous whispers in Eire that "big events" were in the offing. The outlawed Irish Republican Army was expected to plant a few more bombs in Great Britain. Northern Ireland might blaze with revolt against British rule...
...came and went without violence or total freedom. The Irish Prime Minister made a St. Patrick's Day radio speech to the U. S. in which, as usual, he briskly criticized the British Government. New York City's numerous and enthusiastic Irish defiantly paraded up Fifth Avenue against a blinding snowstorm. And the period of great expectations moved to Easter Week, a time of the year which can be and has been most productive of Irish history. It may be moved still further forward, but World War II may well bring a turning point...
Additional guests will include Peter B. Tague, Postmaster of Boston; Patrick Conley, Assistant Postmaster in charge of mails, and a dozen representative postal authorities of the Boston district...
...establishment of a course of study and research in Celtic language and literature was anonymously given the University yesterday at the St. Patrick's Day dinner celebrating the 203rd anniversary of the Charitable Irish Society at the Copley Plaza Hotel...
...teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...