Word: wexford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst in living memory...
Prince Michael Neale is Eire's No. 1 manufacturer of cattle dip. As a County Wexford farmer's son, he used to lie on a cliff top in the long grass and gaze south across St. George's Channel to the tiny, haze-blue Saltee Islands. Since his first name was legally Prince, it was easy for a farm boy to daydream: "Some day I'll own those islands and become a real prince." He took to calling the Saltees "Paradise...
...Dublin last week tough, handsome Sean McCaughey, 28, who described himself as the Adjutant General of the Irish Republican Army, listened with a faint smile while a military tribunal charged him with kidnapping and assaulting robust Stephen Hayes, onetime I.R.A. officer and County Wexford fooballer. To the hellion I.R.A., the Eire Government is illegal, and so proud Defendant McCaughey refused to plead either innocent or guilty...
Last autumn an unidentified bomber roared over County Wexford in neutral Eire, suddenly dumped its bombs, killed three young girls. Later Germany admitted that part of its Luftwaffe might have lost its way. Since then the drone of unidentified planes has frequently troubled...