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Officially retired since 1919, and living quietly in his home at Castletownshend, near Skibbereen, last week was still another Irish admiral, Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville. His Majesty's Government have worried greatly in recent months over the difficulty of finding British recruits for their rapidly expanding Navy and air force. Admiral Somerville had done much better. Hunting likely young men throughout the Irish Free State who were in need of a job, he saw to it that dozens of them were able to make their way across St. George's Channel to enlist in the British Navy...
Faithful, persistent David O'Shea of Skibbereen, Ireland, courted his fiancee for seven years with large and shiny gifts?40 of them?one for every Christmas, every Easter, every birthday. . . . Last week she, no mummy, broke off the engagement. All the gifts had been coffins. Mr. O'Shea wanted his 40 coffins back, so he sued her for breach of promise...
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