Word: dail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dail, having passed this bill, had adjourned. Mr. De Valera called the Dail back into session. It promptly repassed the bill, thus squelching the Senate's opposition...
...good measure the Dail voted numerous extraordinary powers to the Government before finally adjourning. "I will guarantee that these powers will not be abused," promised Mr. De Valera. "We are not anxious to extend the area of friction and this friction was not caused...
Causes of the conflict were President de Valera's attempt to abolish the Free State Dail's oath of fealty to George V (an attempt thus far blocked by the Free State Senate) and secondly Mr. de Valera's nonpayment of the so-called "Irish annuities" - sums which the pre ious Free State Government of President William Thomas Cosgrave paid to compensate absentee landlords living in Britain for their former Irish estates. From the first President de Valera offered to arbitrate this issue before a tribunal not exclusively composed of the King's subjects, and from...
...rage the Governor General re leased to the Press statements that he has been "discourteously treated" ever since the de Valera Cabinet came in. Defying Mr. de Valera personally, the Governor General wrote to the President, "I know you have a majority in the Dail, aid I know that you can have me removed. ... I do not think I should resign my office because other officeholders think I am a suitable target for ill-conditioned bad manners...
Doing No Wrong? "If England wants a fight, England can have a fight!" cried de Valera Deputy Corey in the Dail. "Ireland is no longer going to be the kitchen garden of England...