Word: fianna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
President Elected. The legislators of the Irish Free State were, indeed, governing it and themselves very well last week, when they assembled in the first parliament to sit since the recent election (TIME, June 20, 27). Disorder seemed likely as the Fianna Fail ("Republican") deputies, led by famed Eamonn De Valera, appeared, and, for the first time, threatened en masse to take their seats-while persisting in their refusal to take the oath of fealty to George V without which no deputy elected to the Dail can sit therein...
...time the Fianna Fail deputies milled about in committee rooms and moped in the corridor of the Dail. Policemen were numerous. The Fianna Fail's 44 members drifted gradually, nonviolently away...
Soon President William T. Cosgrave was re-elected to that office by a vote of 68 to 22-his own party numbering but 46. His speech of acceptance was long, reluctant, full of reproaches to the Fianna Fail for not taking the oath and their seats...