Word: dail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors' innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to vote against the Government and force a new election. That is enough for the town's hotelkeeper...
...friend to such violence, President de Valera, tall, teacherish and full of ideal?. made in the Dail Eireann last week one of the handsomest apologies ever offered by a chief executive to a mere deputy. Fortnight ago the President had accused Deputy Mulcahy, onetime Free State Defense Minister of going to Glasgow for a secret conference with British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham-an act that would stink of treason to the nose of any Irishman...
...regret deeply." said President de Valera in the Dail last week, "that I should have given publicity to a falsehood. I tender my apologies to Deputy Mulcahy...
Though applause crashed out from all parts of the Dail, General Mulcahy still smoldered with Irish ire. "I demand an official investigation!" shouted he, but Speaker Frank Fahy quashed further discussion...
...Irish Free State members of Parliament. Last week Eamon de Valera got rid of that too, despite a stone around his neck and a yapping pack at his heels. The stone is the Irish Seanad (Senate). Its 60 members are elected for nine-year terms by the Dail and Seanad conjointly, in batches of 20 every three years. Once an honorable company, they are now chiefly pious place-hunters. A majority are men of onetime President William T. Cosgrave's Opposition which holds that Ireland cannot support itself free of Britain. Satisfied with the Free State where it stands...