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It is perfectly true that the more monomaniac sort of Sinn Feiner might sometimes irritate this innocent and isolated American spirit by being pro-Irish. It is equally true that a traditional Bostonian or Virginian might irritate it by being pro-English. The only difference is that large numbers of pure Irishmen are scattered in those far places, and large numbers of pure Englishmen are not.
There's not the sympathy there was, and a growing disposition to let the Irish settle their own affairs without interference from America." Tommy felt that Boris had shrugged his shoulders as he answered: "Does that matter, since the money only nominally comes from the States?" "The chief difficulty is the landing of the ammunition," said the Sinn Feiner.
Labor organizer after labor organizer fought for the unity of the working people. But no sooner would such a speaker rise oft a platform than there would be calls from all parts of the house: 'Are ye a Sinn Feiner?, 'What's yer religion? or 'Do ye vote unionist? There was no way out. He had to declare himself. Then one or the other half of his audience would rise and leave.
NAPOLEON was born in the year 1769, the third son of Carlo Maria Buonaparte, an honest notary public of the city of Ajaccio in the island of Corsica, and his good wife, Letizia Ramolino. During the first twenty years of his life, young Napoleon was a professional Corsican patriot a Corsican Sinn Feiner, who hoped to deliver his beloved country from the yoke of the bitterly hated French enemy.
I'd have given the wrong number, and there would have been the deuce to pay. No, this is the place for me. Hullo, here's another knock." This visitor proved to be of an entirely different type to the last. Tommy recognized in him an Irish Sinn Feiner. Certainly Mr. Brown's organization was a far-reaching concern.
The cook, on learning that this was a "feiner Herr," had added trout to the regulation dishes; and although she was convinced that the only proper way to cook them was "blau gesotten" meaning boiled to a livid bluish white she had learned American tastes from the Denes and sent them in to Gethryn beautifully brown and crisp. Rex turned one over critically. "Good little fish. Who is the angler?"
I am bored by these fools' squabbles that devastate the world. I am bored by Ireland, Orange and Green. Curse the Irish north and south together! Lord! how I HATE the Irish from Carson to the last Sinn Feiner! And I am bored by India and by Egypt. I am bored by Poland and by Islam. I am bored by anyone who professes to have rights. Damn their rights! Curse their rights!
'I will so, I said, and I turned to the man behind the counter, but, sure, God bless you, he wasn't there. 'Well, this bates all, says I to the Sinn Feiner, 'an if the peelers catches a houldt of you, you'll get into bother over the head of this! I picked up my shillin', an' I went out. The place was full of them.
Yet what John Dillon resented most, as indeed every moderate man in Ireland resented it, was the insinuation that the rising had been nothing more nor less than an orgy of murder by a band of criminals, so that it accordingly rendered every single Sinn Feiner liable to be shot at sight, whether he had actually taken part in the insurrection or not.
Behind one of the gates of the Park, a Sinn Feiner was lying face downwards in the hole he had made to be a trench, and the crowd climbed up the railings to gape at him. A youth thrust his way through the people and peered at the dead man, and then he turned to the crowd and said to them, "Let's get the poor chap out and bury him!"
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