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...Fifteen rebels were shot and thousands deported after British shells ended the uprising, but Lemass was released. According to Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home to his Mom." He went underground instead. When De Valera's Fianna Fail Party assumed power in 1932, Lemass became the youngest member of the Cabinet. As Prime Minister he tore away at the economic aspects of what he called the Green Curtain-the high tariffs and low level of industrialization that had impeded Ireland's development...
...Brien came out for, among other things, a workers' democracy, abrogation of the Anglo-Irish free-trade treaty, and a neutralist foreign policy. Responding to the challenge, the ruling Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) Party, under Premier John (Jack) Lynch, campaigned against Labor's "alien ideology," and against O'Brien himself. Taking account of the fact that O'Brien has been divorced, they pinned on him the ironic label of "the new pope of Irish morality...
...turned out, Fianna Fail captured 75 seats in the 144-seat Dail, or Parliament, three more than it had before. The equally conservative opposition party, Fine Gael, won 50 and Labor only 18. The result confirmed Lynch, a compromise choice for his party's leadership in 1966, as Taoiseach (chief of the clan) in his own right-and that the Irish are not yet ready for new departures...
...teen-age participant in the 1916 Easter Week uprising and later a member of the underground Irish Republican Army, Lemass turned politician after independence in 1921 when Britain created the self-governing Irish Free State but retained jurisdiction over the six Protestant counties of Ulster. Eleven years later, the Fianna Fail came to power, led by Eamon de Valera, and in 1959, when Prime Minister De Valera moved up to the presidency, Lemass stepped in as Prime Minister. In power, he improved relations with long-hated Britain, broke precedent by making a friendly call on Ulster's Prime Minister...
...Taoiseach (pronounced Tee-shock), Lynch, a tall, astute administrator with a soft, musical brogue, is expected to carry on where Lemass left off-even to reappointment of most of Lemass' Cabinet. The Cork-born former athlete has his work cut out. The Fianna Fail, which holds only 71 of Parliament's 144 seats, faces two tough by-elections expected in February. If Fianna Fail loses both, Lynch's party could face a general election before next summer...