Word: fianna
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...daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party cleared the way for his resignation as Prime Minister of Ireland by nominating him for the largely honorific job of President...
...election day approached once again in Dublin, the opposition Fine Gael Party sought a way to defeat Mayor Briscoe, who belongs to Premier de Valera's Fianna Fail. Playing both sides against the middle, Fine Gael forsook its own candidate to throw its electoral weight behind a promising independent and thereby make sure that Mayor Briscoe failed to get the clear majority of the corporation votes which he needed for reelection. The result was another tie vote, 21 to 21, so into the hat once again went Briscoe's name, together with that of the independent candidate-City...
...smoky orange light of flaming tar barrels, voters in County Clare sang and danced at the crossroads one night last week. They were celebrating the return to power, in Ireland's first general elections since 1954, of their own 74-year-old Eamon de Valera, whose Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party scored a clear-cut victory by taking 78 of the Irish Dail's 147 seats...
...when the time came to cast their votes last week, the discouraged citizens of Ireland dragged themselves to the polls without enthusiasm and in lackluster weariness turned Eamon de Valera out of office, quite possibly forever. When the returns were in, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party had lost eight seats in the Parliament, the Independents who often supported them had lost one. Altogether the opposition parties, led by John Costello's Fine Gael (United Ireland), had gained enough votes to give the anti-Dev coalition a shaky majority...
...politics, a friend warned him: "You'll never get anywhere until you have your own newspaper." De Valera followed the advice, and in 1931 got control of the Irish Press. Next year he was elected Prime Minister. Under him, the Press spoke for "Dev's" Fianna Fáil Party, and circulation climbed until today it is 199,000, only 4,000 behind the Irish Independent, the country's biggest daily. But from the start, Dev had one trouble with the paper. In the heat of Irish politics, the job of editor, which is virtually a lifetime...