Women strive for equality - in 1923... and first Irish passports are issued
Echoes of Our Past.
GIRLS are revolting against the mores of their sex and will now attempt any manly feat, from swimming the channel to piloting an aeroplane, the Echo reported 100 years ago today, on Saturday, December 8 1923.
The shining locks and dark braids have been given to the scissors. They want to smoke, to motor, to play football. In short, to stand level with men.
Of course, many have not only got level, but have long stood towering above men. Tennyson has never been a woman’s poet since he described her as “the lesser man” and the modern girl is wiping out the reproach with half length skirt, close fitting knitted coats, cropped hair and untrimmed felt hat. Cropped hair was once ranked as a degradation.
If only our girls would obtain candid male opinion instead of the advice of the disgruntled among themselves, much of the aloofness, the loneliness, the anxiety, and the quiet ridicule which is their lot today would disappear. Men would be won back to the mood of regarding them as creatures worthy of noble effort and high homage.
But the wiles of women have been from the beginning, as they are today, man’s most bewildering source of entertainment.
Next week, yet another sign will be given to the world of the new national status of Ireland when Saorstát Éireann passports will be issued. Up to the present those issued to Irish travellers going abroad have been practically British ones, but the new passports will be distinctly Irish.
Delays in design and printing have been overcome and they will be ready for use almost immediately.
A motor car was stolen at Firmount, Donoughmore the evening before last, the property of Timothy O’Leary, 29, Leitrim Street, Cork, and was taken while the occupants were in the public house at Firmount.
Five armed men drove off in it towards Fox’s Bridge and Whitechurch and a number of robberies have been committed in those districts since then. It has not yet been recovered.
Before Justice Sullivan at Cork District Sessions today, Joseph Luchessi, Oliver Plunkett Street, summoned Patrick Lucey, Banteer, for publishing a libel with a view to extorting money from him.
The text reads: “Notice to Sportsmen: Beware of bogus bookmakers and the man who pleaded the Gaming Act. Luchessi pleaded the Act and is fraudulently doing me down for the sum of £147. Sportsmen, I call on you to be loyal to the punter and not to bet with Luchessi until he honours that transaction.”
In relation to the armed robbery at Douglas Road on December 1, Denis Mullins, of Wolfe Tone Street, appeared but two accomplices continue to evade custody. The charge against him is that he did rob Paul Ogilvie of £22 10s., two pairs of boots valued at £3 10s., two gold watches and one gold chain valued at £40 and one gold pendant and one gold bracelet valued at £5.
When charged by Sergeant Stack, the accused replied: “All I have to say is I was not there, and have got witnesses to prove that.”
Barry St J. Galvin,representing accused, said he was a respectable man and should be able to prove he is not guilty. Bail was opposed by the prosecution and the court declined to grant it.
The final match in the Dudley Cup (rugby football) was played this afternoon in Dublin between Queen’s University, Belfast and University College Cork.
Also today, Constitution and Dolphin met at the Mardyke grounds. Constitution won by one goal (3 points) to nil.
Followers of soccer will be provided with a thrilling contest tomorrow at the Lansdowne grounds when home team, Barrackton juniors, line out against Shandon in the Junior League. Both will field their best 11 in an all-out effort to maintain their points. The match will start at 3pm sharp.
The Secretary of the Duhallow Hunt has communicated to us that all scheduled meets are cancelled owing to the deliberate poisoning of hounds at Cahirmee today
Luxor: The first stage of dismantling the golden canopy of Tutankhamen’s tomb took place yesterday when the folding doors of the first shrine were taken off their hinges and removed to the ante chamber.
Liverpool: Mark Hambourg, the pianist, was carried on board the Canadian liner Montrose today suffering from ‘pedal cramp’. He is to tour Canada for four and a half months.
Christiania: The Norwegian Prime Minister has said that drunkenness is as prevalent now as it was before Norway introduced Prohibition.
