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...guys wearin' hippie clothes...
...ironic that St. Patrick's Day, the time of shamrocks and wearin' of the green, should come when Memorial Drive's own soon to bloom greenery stands threatened. Today's green holiday looks forward to warm spring reveries beneath the sycamores. But the Metropolitan District Commission would take away the trees to make roads of our riverbanks...
More or less to the measure of The Wearin' o' the Green, the following verse, illustrated by schoolboy art, was inscribed on the walls of the jakes (John) at Saint Michan's College, near Belfast...
...troubles on civil service reform, but he foresaw a day when the Tiger would rise again. Said he: "I see a vision. I see the civil service monster lyin' flat on the ground. I see the Democratic Party standin' over it with foot on its neck and wearin' the crown of victory. I see Thomas Jefferson lookin' out from a cloud and sayin', 'Give him another sockdologer: finish him.' And I see millions of men wavin' their hats and singin', 'Glory Hallelujah...
...MAIMED, AND OTHER IRISH STORIES, by James Plunkett (220 pp.; Devin-Adair; $3), is the work of a brand-new Irish author, a Dublin trade-union official who writes excellent short stories on the side. When he wants to, as in a glitteringly ironic piece called The Wearin' of the Green, Jim Plunkett can mount as savage an attack on his country's new nationalist ruling class as the most delirious Liffeyside rabble-rouser could croak for. When in another mood, as in a spine-stiffening tale of men ratting and fighting against Britain's unforgotten Black...