Word: eireann
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...Dublin, correspondents and cinema-cameramen roosted throughout the week near the Dáil Eireann, obstreperous lower House of the Irish Free State Parliament. The hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without...
...room in the Bail Eireann (Irish Lower House) President William Cosgrave signed an order for the release from prison of Eamon de Valera, obdurate chief of recalcitrant Irish Republicans. Many more release orders were signed...
Desmond Fitzgerald, Free State Minister of External Affairs, announced in the Dail Eireann (Irish Chamber of Deputies) that Timothy A. Smiddy, onetime Professor of Economics at University College, Cork, had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the Irish Free State at Washington...
With the Republican members conspicuous by their absence (they refused to take an oath of allegiance to George V and therefore cannot sit), the new Dail Eireann (Irish Chamber of Deputies) met for the first time...
Owing to the complexities of proportionate representation, final results of the Irish election of a new Dail Eireann were considerably delayed...