Word: eireann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, there was only one thing for a good Irishman to do-place his bets. Sweepstakes were flourishing in every office in Eire last week, and Radio-Eireann, the state broadcasting company, which had timidly refused to air political speeches of any kind, was offering a fat cash prize to the best picker...
Deputy Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins, the doughty man, rose in the Dail Eireann last week to complain that Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had called the Opposition "cubs...
Deputy James Dillon itched with a question. In the Dail Eireann he put it to Prime Minister Eamon de Valera: "Are we a republic...
What kind of an Irishman was that, and him a Sinn Feiner, always a lep ahead of the murdering Black & Tans in the days of "The Trouble?" What kind was it but himself. General Richard Mulcahy, 57, president of the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party in the Dail Eireann. And what did he say, the brave boyo? To his party convention in Dublin Mulcahy said...
Angry Irish voices filled the lecture theater of Dublin's handsome, wide-flung Leinster House. Honorable red-faced members of the Dail Eireann threw "reckless," "irresponsible," "pique and petulance" at the bowed head of astute, unbowed Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, crouched on his shiny, mahogany front-row seat. De Valera had just tripped an unwary Dail into an unwanted general election, the second within a year...