Word: sinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates the issue thus presented with himself. Then he lumbers...
...McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash and silly accusation against a man who promptly proves his innocence. Forced to confess his own guilt, Gypo is sentenced to be shot. He escapes from his improvised jail...
...JOHN SINN...
...Colin Clive) is a British officer stationed at Dublin. His friend Captain Tennant (William Powell), who has had an affair with Mrs. Kerr (Edna Best) before her marriage, attempts to revive it when they meet again. Captain Kerr finds out about this the evening he gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret as he gets into...
Only in Ireland could there be a king's representative like Donal Buckley. An ardent Republican and oldtime Sinn Fciner, he was nominated for the governor generalship by his good friend Eamon de Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live...