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Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...
...rain and spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know her folklore) gave...
What kind of an Irishman was that, and him a Sinn Feiner, always a lep ahead of the murdering Black & Tans in the days of "The Trouble?" What kind was it but himself. General Richard Mulcahy, 57, president of the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party in the Dail Eireann. And what did he say, the brave boyo? To his party convention in Dublin Mulcahy said...
William Thomas Cosgrave, wild-haired, mild-eyed little leader of Eire's muted opposition party (the Fine Gael), retired. Successively a bar-boy, Sinn Feiner (he was sentenced to death, later pardoned for his part in 1916's Easter Rebellion) and Eire President (1922-32), 63-year-old Cosgrave is reported to have been ailing for eight years...
...bishop of the Anglican Church, who carted Bernard off to Tasmania when he was an infant and proposed that Bernard follow in his churchly steps. Bernard preferred to be a soldier. He went to Sandhurst, served in World War I, later commanded a battalion of Royal Fusiliers during the Sinn Fein trouble. But he did not enjoy that. "It was my home and my people." At the age of 40 he married. A son, aged 13, goes to school in Hampshire...