Devenport

At that stage it was in for a penny, in for a pound; I got about two hours sleep, then went back for the show (seven minutes or so live with Jim Fitzpatrick; by this stage I could do it on autopilot) and then went on to the Slugger O'Toole/Stratagem election breakfast at the Europa Hotel, nipping back again to the BBC for one more interview (jointly with Mark Devenport, on Radio Foyle).

Linkspam for 7-5-2010 ias 2010

Mark Devenport, sitting beside me, was churning out blog entries for the BBC site.

Linkspam for 7-5-2010 ias 2010

There 's Ellery Devenport ben down here these two weeks, a puttin 'up at the tahvern, with a landau an' a span o 'crack horses, a takin' on her out to ride every day, and Miss Mehitable, she 's so sot up, she 's reelly got a bran-new bonnet, an 'left off that' ere old un o 'hern that she 's had trimmed over spring an' fall goin 'on these' ere ten years.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Yeh see, they never 'd a got 'em ef 't had n't ben for Colonel Devenport.

Oldtown Folks 1869

I tell yer, Colonel Devenport 's a man as chops his mince putty fine.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Yeh know old Gineral Pierpont, his gret-gret-grandfather, was a gineral in the British army in Injy, an 'he racketed round 'mong them nabobs out there, an' got no end o 'gold an' precious stones, an 'these' ere pearls an 'diamonds that she wore on her neck and in her ears hes come down in the Devenport family.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Lordy massy! well, 't was providential we took Colonel Devenport 'long with us, I tell you; he talked to them fellers in a way that made 'em shake in their shoes.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Edna attached vast importance to individual influence, and fearing that enthusiastic young minds would be captivated by the charms of communism in labor, she analyzed the systems of "sisterhoods" which had waxed and waned from the Béguinages of the eleventh century, to Kaiserswerth, and Miss Sellon's establishment at Devenport.

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

Devenport also picked up on an interview Salmond gave to RTE this morning in which he appeared to draw a parallel between Cameron's tactics over the referendum and Britain's behaviour towards Ireland.

The Guardian World News Paul Owen 2012

Mark Devenport, the political editor of BBC Northern Ireland, also noticed the interest in Salmond from the Northern Ireland representatives, including the first minister Peter Robinson:

The Guardian World News Paul Owen 2012