Word: dail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week "the person of the King in the Irish Free State" (as in any other Dominion) was the Governor General appointed by the King. Irishmen thought the British crisis (see p. 14) an opportunity too good to lose. In Dublin the Dail by a vote of 81-to-5 frostily "approved" the fact that there is a new King, said nothing about "allegiance" and passed an amendment 79-to-55 that the office of Governor General of the Irish Free State is abolished...
President de Valera's new Constitution. which would set up in the Free State a state wholly free, with the office of Governor-General abolished and all specific reference to the British Crown removed, will come before the Dail in the form of a Bill before Christmas. The Constitution contains provisions for the election directly by the people of a Chief Magistrate similar to the President of the U. S.; for a bicameral legislature in which the new Senate would be constituted not on party lines but on a functional "corporative state'' basis. "We do not, however...
...Dail Eireann last week the Free State's Army bill was passed providing it with an Army of 5,900 regulars, 5,800 reserves, 18,500 volunteers at a total cost...
...Senate to abolish the Blue Shirts and he still wanted to try General O'Duffy on charges of sedition and incitement to murder. When the conservatives of the Senate refused to pass a bill banning the uniform of the Blue Shirts, President de Valera angrily appealed to the Dail Eireann (House of Representatives) to abolish the Senate. Readily they obliged -with a bill which calls for the Senate's approval...
Same day Dublin's Dail took pity upon Housepainter Peadar Cearnaigh (Peter Kearney). Inflamed by the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Peadar Cearnaigh sat down and wrote the words of "The Soldier's Song." As the national anthem of the Irish Free State it brings him great honor. Lately he has demanded royalties for public performances. Royalties he did not receive, but last week the Dail voted him a grant...