Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such thing. Instead, they went into secret session, unanimously approved General Mulcahy's security plan and his leadership, announced they would fight enough seats next election to form a government if they won. Cried the Dublin Irish Times, which does not like Eire's gloomy Prime Minister Eamon de Valera: "General Mulcahy's speech comes like a draught of fresh air into the fetid atmosphere of Irish make-believe...
...Eamon de Valera, Eire's election was a personal triumph and a bright green light. Tired of trying to rule with a minority in the Dail (House of Commons), he had astutely seized the opportunity offered three weeks ago by an otherwise unimportant defeat (TiME, May 22), asked the people for a solid majority. Last week he got what he wanted...
...this popular interest, and for his majority, De Valera had the U.S. Government to thank. Its recent pressure, reluctantly seconded by Britain, against Eire's neutrality had simply made Eire's Irishmen more devoted to their own belligerent neutrality than ever. Eamon de Valera symbolized neutrality and Eire's independence, hauled in the votes when the test came...
Angry Irish voices filled the lecture theater of Dublin's handsome, wide-flung Leinster House. Honorable red-faced members of the Dail Eireann threw "reckless," "irresponsible," "pique and petulance" at the bowed head of astute, unbowed Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, crouched on his shiny, mahogany front-row seat. De Valera had just tripped an unwary Dail into an unwanted general election, the second within a year...
Presumably, peppery U.S. Minister David Gray (uncle, by marriage, to Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt) stepped down a corridor in Dublin's Leinster House, entered Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's office. Presumably, gaunt, U.S.-born "Dev" scanned the note handed him, hopped good & mad from his chair, sputtering more sparks than the fire on his hearth...