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...even forbids Ireland's press to carry its name. Since 1956 the Roman Catholic Church has treated I.R.A. membership as a mortal sin. The cause has been hurt by a decline in the "tolerant sympathy" of Irish-Americans, whose dollars largely financed the rebels. Eire's President Eamon ("The Long Fella") de Valera, a legendary hero of the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, once pledged to make "Ireland her own, and all therein, from the sod to the sky," but he has repeatedly censured latter-day rebels. Chided Dev: "These young men are living...
...retained an impishly boyish notion of what constitutes a great moment in history. He could remember Queen Marie of Rumania's being presented with an honorary headdress by the Dakota Indians and telling her lady in waiting to "get rid of that damned thing." He remembered lean Eamon De Valera, clad in long underwear, donning huge boxing gloves and sparring with his bull-necked secretary in a sitting room of the old Waldorf. It sometimes seems that Fowler had the kind of mind that files what other people forget. If one wants to know it, Skyline is the place...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Ireland: The Tear and the Smile," the first of a two-program report, with guests ranging from Eamon de Valera to Brendan Behan...
March of a Nation. Now old and nearly blind, tall, austere Eamon de Valera, 76, had stepped down as Taoiseach (Prime Minister), confident that his people would send him "into the park," i.e., to the presidential residence in Dublin's Phoenix Park and to the job that he himself had declared to be "above politics." For 40 years he had dominated the Irish scene, and for 21 of those he had headed the government. Though born in Manhattan -a fact that was to help him escape a British firing squad-he grew...
...slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party cleared the way for his resignation as Prime Minister of Ireland by nominating him for the largely honorific job of President...