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MacCool could also hit. To qualify for the Fianna, a band of soldiers in the service of Cormac Mac Art, Ireland's illustrious Third-Century king, he was buried to the knees as a target for nine warriors. With a shield and hazel stick, Finn knocked their spears aside...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail (League of Destiny) Party won 67 seats, a loss of ten. "Dev's" republicans were still the largest group in the Dail, but it had lost a majority (71). The prospect was that Dev would cooperate with a lesser party to get a working administration...
...suddenly proposed to his party of Sinn Feiners that they enter the Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still do. It took six years for de Valera to complete his political comeback. When he did so, he began once more to lead the still-unfinished Irish march to complete independence...
...stamp of approval on his recently negotiated Anglo-Irish agreement, the voters of Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter of days...
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera usually gets his bills passed in Eire's Bail Eireann (lower house) by a small majority. He has often been irked by the fact that his Fianna Fail Party, with 68 votes out of 138, has had to depend upon scattering Labor and Independent votes...