Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ulster*-which became officially Northern Ireland when the rest of the island became the Irish Free State, now Eire-was recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
...short, the United Kingdom, blackmailed from Dublin, "must" simply hand over Ulster to Eire, according to Eamon de Valera, who last week made not the slightest attempt to spare British feelings. The Prime Minister of Eire, however, did seek to soothe Ulstermen over the head of its Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon of Northern Ireland...
Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, before he went fishing, wrote out in his own hand a letter agreeing that His Majesty's Government will negotiate with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, owing to Mr. de Valera's sudden demand -following the Munich dismemberment of Czechoslovakia-that a plebiscite be held to determine whether some of Ulster (the six counties of Northern Ireland which are part of the United Kingdom) shall be brought under the de Valera Government of Eire...
Elected. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera; to the Presidency of the League of Nations Assembly; in Geneva...
...Eire Act set the seal of Parliament on the new and even freer status which Prime Minister Eamon de Valera won for his country in the British Commonwealth (TIME...