Word: sean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dublin, the 1,230 primary schoolteachers on strike for higher wages since last March (TIME, April i) made the front pages again. Into a Dublin football pitch where Prime Minister de Valera, President Sean O'Kelly and other bigwigs sat watching the All Eire Gaelic Football finals, marched some 100 schoolteachers With banners demanding mediation. The crowd of 80,000 roared delightedly: "Good old teachers." Next day the teachers, joined by some 500 parents, held a huge parade that held up Dublin traffic for an hour, while children chanted "We want school...
...paying well, Mrs. Garrett had got some good names (Henry Steele Commager, Jessamyn West, Frederic Prokosch, V. S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain) to write for Tomorrow. She kept her psychic secrets pretty well out of it. People who wanted to know what her aim was got a steady, blue-green stare and a soft answer: "I have no bone to bury, and no ax to grind. But I have a policy: I believe in the humanities, and in common decency...
...that time Dr. Douglas Hyde ("make way there, yous, keep back, keep back, give him space there") was a famous, fine man. Playwright Sean O'Casey, now 65, remembers that Dublin gawked and said wasn't Hyde the grandest champion the glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy...
...Patrick Pearse, you were a man, a poet, with a mind simple as a daisy"). And all the rest of the Irish, great & small: the Pat O'Rourkes, Maggie Burkes, Tim Sheas, Muldoon the Solid Man, the Rose of Tralee, Dr. Michael O'Hickey, Tom Clarke, Sean T. O'Kelly in his top hat and frock coat...
Shaw & Larkin. One day a friend told him about Bernard Shaw: "the cleverest Irishman the world knows, Sean. A wit of wonder. A godsend to men who try to think." Another day he listened to Jim Larkin talk at Liberty Hall in Dublin-about the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, the "red flag rather than the green banner...