Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EAMON ANTONY...
...gallery also included Eamon de Valera, young and "full of the seven deadly virtues"; William Butler Yeats, who in his "strange, deep way" loved the people more than Griffith or De Valera did "or ever could"; Patrick Pearse, the one militant leader to fight for Ireland "from the midst of the Faith" ("Ah, Patrick Pearse, you were a man, a poet, with a mind simple as a daisy"). And all the rest of the Irish, great & small: the Pat O'Rourkes, Maggie Burkes, Tim Sheas, Muldoon the Solid Man, the Rose of Tralee, Dr. Michael O'Hickey...
Last week in a St. Patrick's Day radio speech to the U.S., Irishman Eamon de Valera explained why he had preferred no fight at all. "There were those," he said, "who . . . would have us believe that by our neutrality, we had lost American good will. . ." Eire's Prime Minister never believed...
...Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years...
...Said Eamon de Valera: "We have no two heads of our state. There is one head, elected by the Irish people, and none other. In our external relations we use the head of the group of states with which we are associated for certain restricted purposes...