Word: sean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lough Gur came from all ages: stone axes, flint weapons and tools, a bronze bracelet and bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood, a thatched roof...
Eire stubbornly stuck to its pitifully few guns last week, resolutely maintained its determination to defend itself from British protection as well as Nazi invasion. Irish politicos had reached the point of admitting fear of assault from the Continent. Declared Minister for Supplies Sean Lemass: "We must prepare for the worst and prepare quickly. In case of attack the Government might be put out of action." But Eire continued to fear the British Tommies as much as the German airmen, independently went ahead on its own. Meantime, across the border in Northern Ireland, Tommies massed anyway, ready to jump...
...brand of fascism suits the hotheaded Irish Republican Army, which maintains a complete underground government (and constitution) of its own. Since 1938 its 7,500 youthful members (plus 15,000 fellow travelers) have followed the wild-eyed, bomb-Britain policy of 46-year-old, super-radical Chieftain Sean Russell. There is reason to believe that the intransigent I. R. A.-sters are getting money from the Nazis, mostly...
...Best actress: Sara Allgood, as ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno in the revival of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock...
Juno and the Paycock. Revival of Sean O'Casey's gutbustingly funny, heartbreakingly tragic Irish drama (TIME...