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Good Old George. But on such a day, few got seriously worked up about that matter. Irish tempers, in fact, had simmered down a good deal since the old days. It might even happen, now that they had got rid of the Black & Tans for good, that the Irish might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Independence Day | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Of Black & Tans. The free-for-alls of O'Casey's Volume IV are set in the years when Eire was finally obtaining her independence. Black & Tans roar through Dublin in armored cars, Irish rebels fight them off shoulder to shoulder-and, after defeating them, turn their ferocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaum to the Last | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

At Santiago, in sight of Andean glaciers, the temperature hit 92° one day last week. That day, 17,540 Chileans rode trains from the capital's hot streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capricorn Sun | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Died. Hamar Greenwood, first Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne, 78, Canadian-born British industrialist, last Chief Secretary for Ireland (1920-22): in London. A tough fighter against Irish independence, Lord Greenwood employed the Black & Tans in an attempt to crush the rebellious Sinn Feiners, for years after his retirement lived in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Biography of Betrayal. The facts in the life of William Joyce were neither clear nor simple, but their meaning was. He had been born in Brooklyn, N.Y. (an important part of his defense was that he was not a British subject). His parents were Irish. They were loyal to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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