Word: fianna
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Fianna Fail...
...Fianna Fail, which for years refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George was removed, recently ended its resistance (TIME, Aug. 22), took the oath and its seats at the extreme left of the Dail opposition benches...
...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...
...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...