Word: wicklow
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Ireland's finest silver fir still stands (thanks to the fact that a contractor's saw was once too small to fit its girth)-in Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech...
...Bragh! In Cape Town, South Africa, when postwar radio-telephone service to Eire was resumed, nostalgic Don O'Reilly, 51 years away from the Emerald Isle, put in a station-to-station call, instructed a dazed Dublin operator to "Give my love to the purple hills of Wicklow," contentedly hung...
...mound on Ards Peninsula, Ireland, said to contain a Viking ship burial, a large "crannog," or lake-dwelling, bronze-age cairns in Galway county, and an iron-age village way county, and an iron-age village in Wicklow county will be excavated by Hencken and his associates. A sociological study of county Clare will be carried on under the management of W. L. Warner, assistant professor of Social Anthropology...
...sympathizers. In the original Irish Theatre group there were twelve members, including a clerk from Bog of Allah named Sean Dillon, a Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone...
...against the Irish republicans restarted when Free State troops captured more than a dozen irregulars near Blessington, County Wicklow. Since then large captures of the so-called republicans were made...