Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Cosgrave (TIME, Jan. 16). Upon landing Prince Louis effaced himself completely beneath an incognito and succeeded in vanishing from the cognizance of the press. President Cosgrave was scheduled to tour the Midland and Eastern States, explaining his government to Irish-Americans, and counteracting the propaganda of famed obstreperous Eamon De Valera, now in the U. S. attempting to raise campaign funds wherewith to disrupt Mr. Cosgrave's majority in the Free State Parliament...
Although the Cosgrave Government is now solidly in power it is menaced by the stubborn faction of famed Eamon de Valera. He collected campaign funds of $150,000 for the last Irish Free State election (TIME, Oct. 24), raising $5,000 in Ireland and $145.000 in the U. S. and Australia. Mr. de Valera is now in the U. S., again soliciting campaign funds; and it is to checkmate him that President Cosgrave comes to the U. S.?however loudly he may protest that his mission is "non-political...
...debate on the election was along party lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
Fianna Fail: This party contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...