Word: dail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weary of endless bloodshed, De Valera urged a cease-fire and formed a new party, Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). In 1932, the party triumphed in elections for the legislature, the Dail, and Dev took power as head of the government. He quickly set about shaving away the vestiges of British power, including the annual payments to former British landowners for their expropriated Irish holdings. He was also forced to break with those who demanded more extreme actions, and in 1936 banned the I.R.A...
...coalition's victory -by a thin but workable margin of about four seats in the 144-member Lower House or Dail-was probably the result less of specific issues than of a widespread feeling that after 16 straight years the Fianna Fáil had been in office long enough...