Word: dail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President (Premier) William T. Cosgrave declared before the Dail: "We have to deal with an organized conspiracy to subvert the Government, but the force behind the raids and the genius directing them will not be able to make a sustained attack on liberty, order and peace in the Irish Free State." He then introduced the Public Safety Bill, supplementing the Treason Act and conferring emergency powers upon the Government. By employing all the persuasion at his command he was able to get the bill through the Dail last week...
...ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
...flaying vociferously His Brittanic Majesty's Governor General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, jovial Anglo-Irish barrister, author of that illuminating volume Why Ireland is not Free. Indiscreet, the Governor General is reported to have recently declared: "The longer the Sinn Feiners boycott the Dail the better pleased I shall...
...Valera's "policies" envisioned the entrance of the now abstaining Sinn Fein Deputies into the Dail Eireann (Irish Free State Lower House), "as soon as the Oath of Fealty to King George V [now required of all Irish M.P.'s] shall be abolished. . . . My purpose is that our Deputies shall then work from within toward the establishment of a Republic...
...with interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...