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Chief debater against conscription was neutral Eire's gaunt Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Said he to a jammed session of the Dail Eireann: "The six counties [of Northern Ireland] are a part of Ireland. . . . No act of Parliament can alter this fact. In the six northern counties there are more than a third of the population who have vehemently protested against being cut off from the main body of the nation, who were so cut off against their own will and against the will of the majority of the whole Irish people. It would be an outrage...
...this interchange, some observers thought they saw a crack in Eire's isolation. Though shrewd onetime Schoolmaster Eamon de Valera has turned down all Britain's offers for bases in Eire, they thought he might be persuaded to horse-trade with the friendly...
Bomb fires raged furiously in Belfast. To the rescue fire engines were driven with wide open throttles 100 miles from Dublin in neutral Eire. Last week Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera made it plain that where wartime suffering is concerned, neutral Eire stands by warring Northern Ireland. "They are our own people," he said, "and their sorrows in the present instance are our sorrows...
Married. Emer de Valera, second daugher of Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, language student at the National University, Dublin; and Brian 0 Cuiv, on of the late bean-tall, droop-mustached Sean O Cuiv, director of Eire's Information Bureau; in Dublin. Taoiseach de Valera gave the bride away...
...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...