IRISH FREE STATE: Rocks, Hammers, Nails

Rocks, Hammers, Nails

The fierce-fighting men of County Kerry had a fine riot last week. Thousands of them, especially the frisky young ones, think there is no finer man in Ireland than Free State President Eamon de Valera of the long gozzle and wild hair. When they heard that his No. 1 foe. bullet-headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand,...

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