... battalion rarely adopts his military title in private life. Both Americans and Irishmen agree in the mispronunciation of the words adveitisement and advert'se, and Scotsmen and Irishmen in the confusion of shall and will. TV/Tr. Ralph then tells us that his ...

... tive peer, though, in doing so, he places him self in an invidious posi tion. As the heir in due course to a peerage of the United Kingdom (his father, Lord Scars- dale, is seventy-seven), he proposes to be an Irish peer meanwhile. But an Irish peer is ...

... interests me is how the fish get back in their shell when they are sold again. Perhaps they wear an English shell, just as some Irishmen have worn an English uniform. A circular letter informs me of (and asks me to contribute towards) the erecting of a memorial ...

... chance of beating Sunderland at home. Again, Millwall Athletic, the leaders of the Southern League, are asked to defeat the United at Sheffield. This is too tall an order. On their own ground Millwall would have stood something like an even chance, hut ...

... through the United States. It was one of his most difficult tasks, for the Prince's personal safety was at stake. No one knew what unpleasantness or even risk might occur, for at that time de Valera was in New York, and among all Irishmen, the Irish- ...

... probably through the good offices of the United States, the one disinterested Power in the conference, though in view of the impending tariff war between Germany and America the Kaiser might decline to regard the United States as impartial. The difficulty ...

... actually wrote to Pat Ford, already mentioned as a notorious advocate of dynamiting and murder, to get them money from Irishmen in the United States for the Clonfert Cathedral. A POLITICAL BISHOP The most important man in the political priesthood, and chief ...

... carelessness is not noticeable, admitting, even, that it exists. I suppose that in no hunting country in the whole of the United Kingdom will you find a better-turned-out field than you will s e in Leicestershire on any day of the week during the legitimate ...

... either commandeered, or specially engaged, made its appearance in the hostile ranks. Ger mans, Scandinavians, Bulgarians, Irishmen, and Frenchmen, who either were on the spot at the outbreak of hostilities, or had been engaged to arrive soon after, helped ...

... Saturday last Sergeant O'Leary was the centre of a demon stration organised by the United Irish League to welcome him to London and to stimulate recruiting amongst Irishmen. Vast crowds assembled to hear the speech made by O'Leary. and great I enthusiasm ...

... League. In the three-quarter line there were E. Morgan, the Welsh international, H. Orr, the Scots inter national, and two Irishmen in A. B. O'Brien and P. F McEvedy. This cosmopolitan collection of players recalls the famous Middle sex team of ten years ...

... last one? The Shadow of War has been over us for a long time, but it was a fratricidal war. Now we are all together again, united in the face of a common foe. Shure I'd rather shoot fifty Germans than one Irishman on either side, said an officer to me ...