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TREY DIG FOR VICTORY

... TREY DIG FOR VICTORY Only last week I was in several back gardens in Trim and although there was not more than a road of ground In any one of them, each had enough vegetables to keep a family going for the winter. Prom hedge to hedge was cultivated, each ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1951
Newspaper: Drogheda Independent
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... years of service in the top peoples store BRITISH comic Rob Newman has just finished writing a film script called Dig for Victory which he plans to star in himself AMERICAN thriller writer Elmore Leonard will be one of the special guests at the ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1996
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

NICHOLAS LEONARD

... for the welfare state. Instead, the welfare state has been brought to its knees by the escalating cost of The wartime 'dig for victory' appeals to Brown, who sees himself as a latter-day Churchill ...

Published: Monday 27 July 2009
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

“Eat More Grass”

... FROM England came an envelope postmarked with the “Dig For Victory” slogan. It contained a pamphlet sent to me by a London reader for a tail-end story. The booklet is ponderously called ‘“Eat For Victory,” and advocates the vitamins to be found in grass: ...

Published: Monday 22 July 1940
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Clare 0-9 Waterford 0-7

... Hickey then sealed the deal with a snap-shot in the dying seconds as sheer pride and obstinancy helped the home side dig out victory. But those final exchanges were the only sparks of excitement in an encounter which, while featuring some excellent defence ...

Published: Monday 26 May 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

Pressure continued

... knun ended on the turf. The , love. amid a stony silence. %xtled a penalty to Cork which Da%enport converted condom- 'dig Rovers' victory. unespect, as it was, will do much to re' good faith among their suor -ter.. And if they play with the ‘iitour and ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1968
Newspaper: Sligo Champion
County: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Birthday cabbage for Camilla

... champagne the Duchess of Cornwall was given a giant cabbage for her birthday. Camilla and the Prince of Wales visited the Dig For Victory allotment in St James's Park, London, designed to show the advantages of growing your own veg. The site shows the differences ...

Published: Friday 18 July 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

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... Brown's wife, Sarah, has started growing vegetables and fruit in the back garden of Number 10 Downing Street. The wartime 'dig for victory' gesture appeals to the prime minister who sees himself as a latter- day Churchill, fighting against the global forces ...

Published: Monday 27 July 2009
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

SLOGANS OF WAR AND POLITICS

... produced very few slogans which have caught the imagination. In England the tillage campaign has been furthered by the cry: “Dig for Victory.” Otherwise the phrasemakers have had scant success. Perhaps they may do better before the war ends. ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ADVICE TO

... with a final of 4 p.c., is maintained for the year at 6 1 2 p.c. free of tax. The £l, units 'stand at 45/3. With the Dig for Victory campaign still in full swing, seed merchants are reaping a fair harvest for themselves. Ryder and Sons (1920) is a p ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LAST weekend was spent entirely in the garden and I managed to get a few things sown: the first peas

... Victorian age to assist the working man (yes, it was all men in those days) in providing for his family. World War II and the Dig for Victory Campaign meant that allotment culture became a fixed feature of English life. I may be wrong but I calculate that there ...

Published: Sunday 18 March 2001
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 93 | Tags: none

The fisticuffs of last year were absent, but the Chelsea Flower Show 'O5 wasn't any better for the outbreak of ..

... than a cuttingedge garden for our times. Set in 1945 and decorated with homecoming Union Jack bunting, it boasted a 'Dig for Victory' vegetable plot containing old varieties, a thatched pub and an overgrown patch sown with wild flowers and symbolic red ...

Published: Sunday 29 May 2005
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 509 | Page: 71 | Tags: none