Word: dail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, church authorities restated the Catholic position that a nuncio does not represent a temporal state, but "the spiritual power of the Pope." Irishmen, both Protestant and Catholic, were irked by the controversy (said a Protestant vicar: "Let these Americans squabble at home"). Some representatives in the Dail, Ireland's parliament, asked the government to take action against Blanshard. But Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken, a better democrat than they, retorted: "It is not worth noticing...
...French decision to ban the import of Irish shellfish shattered the Islanders' chief livelihood: lobster fishing. Hard hit by the winter's gales, unable to get food from the mainland, the elders of Blasket gave up. To Ireland's Dail (Parliament) last week they sent pleading letters: "Take us off the islands; give us cottages on the mainland." The Blaskets had decided to give back their six isles to the pixies, the pookas and the hobgoblins...