Word: eamon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ulster*-which became officially Northern Ireland when the rest of the island became the Irish Free State, now Eire-was recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, before he went fishing, wrote out in his own hand a letter agreeing that His Majesty's Government will negotiate with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, owing to Mr. de Valera's sudden demand -following the Munich dismemberment of Czechoslovakia-that a plebiscite be held to determine whether some of Ulster (the six counties of Northern Ireland which are part of the United Kingdom) shall be brought under the de Valera Government of Eire...
Elected. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera; to the Presidency of the League of Nations Assembly; in Geneva...
...Eire Act set the seal of Parliament on the new and even freer status which Prime Minister Eamon de Valera won for his country in the British Commonwealth (TIME...
Placing the stamp of approval on his recently negotiated Anglo-Irish agreement, the voters of Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter...