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Folk Notes. Rosalie Sorrells plays through Sunday, May 19, at Passim. Call 492-7679 for information...Peter Johnson hosts another folk party with Bill Lyons, Jack White, and Eamon O'Dohery singing traditional ballads from the British Isles Saturday, May 18 at the Joy of Movement Center...
...conservative Fianna Fail, which lost control of the government three months ago, defeated Thomas O'Higgins, the candidate of the governing Fine Gael and Labor coalition, by a vote of 636,162 to 587,577. When he starts his seven-year term later this month, Childers will succeed Eamon de Valera, 91, who has dominated Irish public life for half a century...
...wrote a group of Catholic students in a joint letter to the Irish Times. As it turned out, the referendum won by a landslide; the Irish electorate voted to repeal Article 44 by about 5 to 1. Among those voting was the Republic's father figure and President, Eamon...
...Life. Later, the gunmen fought against the newly organized Free State government, because it had accepted partition and taken an oath of allegiance to the crown. Even when Eamon de Valera, a commander of the Easter Rebellion, took over as Free State Prime Minister in 1932, the I.R.A. kept up the struggle. De Valera was ultimately forced to round up and intern many of his old comrades in arms...
Died. General Richard Mulcahy, 85, Irish soldier-politician and perennial foe of Eamon de Valera; in Dublin. Mulcahy dropped his medical studies to fight alongside De Valera during the 1916 Easter Rebellion. When the British recognized the Irish Free State as a dominion five years later, the austere teetotaler led the national forces that crushed De Valera's still dissatisfied Irish Republican Army in a bloody civil war. Mulcahy served in several governments before and after Ireland gained full independence. After his old rival became President in 1932, Mulcahy took the reins of the opposition Fine Gael Party...