Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacSwiney and several other women agitators and a few of the adherents who have been with him from the start. . . It is time there was peace there, for the devastation and revolution cost Ireland about 40,000,000 pounds sterling." It became known, paradoxically enough, that the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera were unknown. The discovery was made by the anxious Mrs. Eamon de Valera, who went to visit her husband at Mount Joy prison, Dublin. Her husband's presence there was denied. Later she sent a wire to the Adjutant General : " Please inform me of the whereabouts...
...Ennis, County Clare, Eamon de Valera made a promised appearance at a Sinn Fein election meeting. Sinn Feiners with republican flags in crêpe greeted him vociferously. Shortly after his arrival in the town Mr. de Valera started his speech. He had hardly uttered half a dozen sentences when an armored car, accompanied by Free State troops, proceeded to clear the crowd. Shots were fired over the heads of the assembly, who dispersed in panic. De Valera is reported to have dropped at the first shot, although a statement issued by the Free State Government said that only " blank " ammunition...
...Nomination Day it is expected that some 500 candidates for 153 seats will be announced. The main Parties: Government, headed by W. T. Cosgrave; Labor, headed by Thomas Johnson; Radical Labor, James Larkin; Republican, Eamon de Valera. Political opinion at Dublin thinks that the Government Party will obtain a small majority over the other parties...
...Eamon de Valera, head of the Republican Party, said that the Irish people will not have to choose between the Free State and a Republic, at the next elections, as there is no chance of fair play for the Republicans. The Republican party might present one candidate in each constituency to enable the people to demonstrate their choice. If elected the Republicans " will refuse to take the oath of allegiance to a foreign King...
...Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Republican Government, sent a note to the Free State Government offering to negotiate terms of peace. The document, which looks like a free translation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social, does not, however, make any allusion to a surrender of arms-a stipulation which, as the Free State Government has constantly emphasized, must precede any peace parley...