Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fianna Fail: This party contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...Valera complied after five years of refusal with article XVII of the Irish Free State constitution which permits no member of the Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...
What the Fianna Fail deputies and their leader actually had in mind appeared from a jointly signed statement which they made public before swearing: "So there can be no doubt as to their duty and no misunderstanding the Fianna Fail deputies hereby give public notice in advance to the Irish people and to all whom it may concern that they propose to regard the declaration [oath] as an empty formality and repeat that their only allegiance is to the Irish nation and that it will be given to no other power or authority...
...passage of this bill thus left the Fianna Fail only three options: 1) political extinction; 2) revolution; 3) taking the oath...
Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...