Word: peadar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after seven anxious years, the Bel was barely swinging. Import restrictions had shrunk its British market. To square garrulous Editor Peadar O'Donnell, one time schoolmaster in County Donegal there seemed but one way out. He would go to the U.S. and raise some money...
...while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought out a top man at headquarters, "and who should he turn out to be but a man from a village where I could name the dogs." After that, Manhattan's Irish cops gave him no trouble...
...Died. Peadar Kearney, 58, house painter, lyricist of The Soldier's Song, Eire's anthem; in Dublin. The tune was theme song of the 1916 rebellion (in which Kearney fought), was made the Free State anthem in 1932, when the Free State granted Peadar $2,400. Up to then the song had netted him less than $800 royalties. Theater orchestras played the anthem after every show till Kearney asked royalties for each performance; then other tunes were found...