Word: dail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commons that conscription for Northern Ireland might be on the way. To arms against bearing arms sprang Northern Ireland Catholics (one-third of the six counties' 1,300,000 population), Laborites, even a section of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews' loyal Unionist Party. In Eire's Dail Prime Minister de Valera this week scolded: "There could be no more grievous attack on any fundamental human right than the plan to force an individual to fight for a country to which he objected to belong." It is a strange war indeed in which Irishmen do not want...
...policy of neutrality is supported by every party in the Dail, by all the people, and by every metropolitan and provincial newspaper in the country. It is based not on hatred of anyone but on a very natural love of Ireland and an equally natural desire to keep war from her shores. It is not denied that cession or lease of the ports to either side would bring war to Ireland...
...Liam Hayes issued a call for 10,000 volunteers within a week. Full-page newspaper advertisements blared out the need for 400,000 volunteers to supplement the regular Army's 70,000 and 120,000 volunteers already under arms. "Everyone who can walk should join the Army," urged Dail members...
...success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper's tyke to President (1922-32), now Opposition Leader of the Dail, rose on his feet last week and plumped for his bitter...
...brothers in one holy cause," gaunt Taoiseach (Leader) de Valera last week formed an all-party National Defense Council of three Cabinet Ministers, three Fine Gael representatives, and two Labor Party men. Prime duty of this Council, whose existence would obviate the necessity for secret sessions of the cumbersome Dail, was to formulate policy on national security, advise the Government without taking executive action...