Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rising. A second medal was to go to veterans of the years of guerrilla war that followed-which the Irish call "The Trouble."* Of the 2,000-odd fighters in the Rising, many are dead, others have disappeared. Among the survivors to whom the medal went were Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, three of his Ministers, Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave, Minister to the U.S. Robert Brennan, Protestant Labor Leader Archie Heron, Actor Arthur Shields...
...meetings were held last week. Their slogan: Up the flag, for Germany determines the future. In Great Britain the Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) was expected soon; Britons got out their gas masks and remarked that late in February the ground is soggy and receptive to gas. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister John Miller Andrews both warned Ireland that an invasion was coming soon. The moon waned...
Engaged. Emer De Valera, second daughter of Eire's Premier Eamon De Valera, student at University College, Dublin, and a whiz in languages; and Brian Ocuiv, also a student at University College; in Dublin...
Last week long-faced Prime Minister Eamon de Valera underlined his subordinate's words with the grave admission that one crisis was already at hand: "The belligerents in blockading each other are blockading us. We have not a moment to lose in preparing for the worst in regard to all those supplies that come to us from abroad." Then he announced that gasoline would be unobtainable by private motorists during the month of February, that tea rations would be cut onefourth, that wheat reserves would last barely until the next harvest, that private coal consumption would be reduced...
...Eire, when Prime Minister Eamon de Valera banned The Great Dictator, a Belfast theatre (in Northern Ireland) tried to advertise the film in Dublin newspapers, with a schedule of train service to Belfast. Eire's censors promptly killed...