Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a long and bloody running fight of guerilla warfare, dynamiting, burning and wrecking, Eamon de Valera has at last thrown his cards upon the Free State table. How this man, often reported captured or wounded, has eluded the government's grasp so long and fought on against ever increasing odds passes comprehension. Whether his object was dictated by mere selfish ambition or by fanatical zeal, even those who have no liking for him must pay some respect to his stubborn courage. But he has now withdrawn his foreign ambassadors, proclaimed a cessation of hostilities, and produced his conditions...
...Eamon de Valera, President of the " Republic," narrowly escaped arrest at the hands of Free State soldiers. It is stated that so close was he to being taken that he left several important documents behind...
...Eamon de Valera is a well educated man, holding the degree of B.A. from the Royal University of Ireland, and for some time a professor in Dublin University. He was born in New York in 1883. His mother was an Irish woman and his father a Spaniard...
...York Globe described Hiram Johnson as "the Eamon de Valera of California...
...reported capture of Eamon de Valera proved to be untrue, but seven officers of the Dublin Brigade of the Republican Army were captured...