Word: roscommon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eire (strongly urged by de Valera) no Protestant would have anything to fear; 3) although an Irish nationalist, he is a "nonpolitical figure" and just the kind of non-controversial head of state that a country intermittently rocked by violent political quarrels needs. Son of a rector of County Roscommon, Dr. Hyde's academic fame rests on his work for the revival of the Irish language as president of the Gaelic League, on his collections of Celtic folklore and on his authorship of Twisting of the Rope, first Gaelic play produced at Dublin's famed Abbey Theater...
While Herbert, the youngest prisoner ever to enter the institution, was amusing himself with his harmonica, being kept away from the older felons, a first citizen of Omaha, Neb. became interested in his case. He was Father Edward J. Flanagan. Father Flanagan was born in Roscommon, Ireland, 45 years ago. He entered one of Omaha's poor parishes in 1913. The hardships of his own people had accustomed but not blinded him to human misery. In the winter of 1914 he began trying to feed and house a few down-&-outers, many of them drunkards and criminals. What made...