IRISH BULLS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 16

IRISH BULLS

Michael Macdonagh, one of the bestknown Irish journalists in the' Reporters' Gallery, says that Ireland's bulls are still as numerous as her snakes are not. When Mr. Macdonagh was over on the Emerald Isle, trying to do for Ireland what Dean Ramsay's "Reminiscences" did for Scotland, he met a hairdresser m Kingstown, says the "Pall: Mall Gazette." "As I was leaving," he said, "the man tried to induce me to buy a bottle of hairwash. 'What sort of stuff is it?* I asked. 'Oh, it's grand stuff,' he replied.. 'It's a sort of multum in parvo—the less you take of it the better.' V A few days later a journalist was walking with a friend over the iWicklow Mountains, where they met a •"character." "Well, Mick," said the tourist, "I've heard some queer stories about your doings lately." "Och, don't believe them, sorr," replied Mick. "Sure, half the lies tould about me by the naybours isn't true." The following notice Mr. Macdonagh saw posted in a pleasure-boat on the Suir:—"The chairs in the cabin are for the ladies.' Gentlemen are requested not to make use of them' till the ladies are seated." And this was printed in a Kingstown newspaper:—■

"James O'Mahony, wine" and spirit merchant, Kingstown, has still on his hands a small quantity of whisky which ■was drunk by the Duke of York while in Dublin."

Englishmen succumb to tho "bull' habit when on'the island.' Witness the annual report- of the Commissioners of National. Education, where this information appears over their, august .signatures:—"The female teachers were in suueted in plain cooking.. They had, in fact, to go through the process of cooking themselves in turn."