News
People often listened to the news on radio, because there was no television then. Often people, especially fathers, would go to Mary O’Connell’s to listen to matches, games and news. The news would have reports of the war and songs to keep people entertained. Speeches were made by Éamon de Valera who was Taoiseach. (He made an historic broadcast at the outbreak of the war and another famous one at the end, when he replied to Mr. Churchill’s speech Ireland’s neutrality.) People were told how Germany saw the war when they listened to Lord Haw-Haw. He came on the radio nearly every night and began with “Germany calling, Germany calling”.
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Famous quotes containing the word news:
“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ...”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 3:8.
“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)