Newspaper page: 'First Irish Name Map Came Out of the —' article and St. Patrick's Day advertisements
Book 1, Page 121
Transcription
A full newspaper broadsheet page, divided into multiple columns with photographs, articles, and large display advertisements. The image shows the page in landscape, folded along the central gutter.
Upper left — feature article
A masthead-style headline running across the upper left columns:
First Irish Name Map
Came Out of the —
[Article body in small newspaper print, multiple columns; not transcribed in full.]
A small subhead inside one of the columns:
No Such Thing as a Shamrock!
Tush, Says Grower of Them
Other column heads visible in the upper portion of the page:
Music Theme
To Dominate
In Institute
Teacher Wins Common Prize
Upper right — articles with photographs
A photograph and headline at the upper right:
Tuesday Is St. Patrick’s Day,
And It Will Be All Day Long
Below it, with a photograph:
Father Walsh Honored in Ceremony
And, in a single column to the far right:
$304,000 Given to Missions
Mid-page right — large display advertisement
A large illustrated St. Patrick’s Day advertisement, with stylized green type:
Let’s Go IRISH
Wally Enright-RCA Victor
St. Patrick’s Day Party
A photograph of a man in a suit, captioned:
Meet Movie and Hits Disk Star
MICKEY
SHAUGHNESSY
IN PERSON
Singing his Hits! Telling his Jokes!
Talking to Boys! Shaking Hands!
A coupon-style block:
FREE
Lucky Shamrock Plant Air Mailed Specially From Ireland
Be MICKEY SHAUGHNESSY
for a day on St. Pat’s Day
Center — appliance advertisement
An appliance advertisement with an illustration of a clothes dryer:
STOP DAYDREAMING
Hamilton
Clothes Dryer
$259.50
Below this, smaller features and listings:
Free Mizpah Trip
Lower right — RCA Victor television advertisement
21-inch
RCA VICTOR
Only the Best to Send
Enough on St. Pat’s Day
only $279.95
Lower left — advertisements
Free
for the kids
LEPRECHAUN
From IRELAND
Given to all adults MONDAY & TUESDAY
O’CONNOR’S HARDGOODS, INC.
Across the bottom of the page, a banner masthead:
WALSH-ENRIGHT’S TIRE & APPLIANCE CO.
AI Notes
A full newspaper page (the inside of a folded broadsheet whose front map appears on the facing page). The upper left corner carries a feature article headlined ‘First Irish Name Map Came Out of the —’ (continued from another page). Other items on the page include photographs and articles headed ‘Tuesday Is St. Patrick’s Day, And It Will Be All Day Long,’ ‘Father Walsh Honored in Ceremony,’ ‘$304,000 Given to Missions,’ ‘No Such Thing as a Shamrock! Tush, Says Grower of Them,’ ‘Music Theme To Dominate In Institute,’ and ‘Teacher Wins Common Prize.’ The lower half of the page carries large display advertisements: ‘Let’s Go IRISH — Wally Enright-RCA Victor — St. Patrick’s Day Party’ featuring ‘Mickey Shaughnessy In Person’; a Hamilton Clothes Dryer ad ($259.50); a Free Mizpah Trip giveaway; ‘Free Leprechaun From Ireland’; 21-inch and 24-inch RCA Victor television sets at $279.95; and an ‘O’Connor’s Hardgoods, Inc.’ ad. The page is busy and many small-print column items are not individually transcribed.
St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Tuesday in 1959, the most likely date for the page given the Hamilton Clothes Dryer at $259.50 and 21-inch RCA Victor television at $279.95 — both characteristic late-1950s pricing. The compiler’s interest in the facing-page Irish-name map (p122) reflects her family’s long pride in the FitzSimons descent from Cashel of Dundalk; Mickey Shaughnessy (1920–1985) was a then-popular character actor.