Word: gael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave's Fine Gael (united Ireland) Party won 32 seats, a loss...
...Independents won eight seats, a gain of three. Most notable was the victory of James Matthew Dillon, firebrand from County Monaghan and ex-Fine Gael deputy leader. Among 354 candidates he was the only one who stood for cooperation with the United Nations. Electorated he: "If anyone here wants Hitler to win I don't want his vote...
Last week the Dáil Eireann was electrified by these rip-roaring pro-Ally words from James Mathew Dillon, deputy leader of the minority Fine Gael party and son of the late, great Nationalist leader, John Dillon...
Trumpeting "we must all be brothers in one holy cause," gaunt Taoiseach (Leader) de Valera last week formed an all-party National Defense Council of three Cabinet Ministers, three Fine Gael representatives, and two Labor Party men. Prime duty of this Council, whose existence would obviate the necessity for secret sessions of the cumbersome Dail, was to formulate policy on national security, advise the Government without taking executive action...
...Eire, but the diehard Irish Republican Army has refused all these years to surrender its arms, fights on with recklessly placed time bombs and other murderous weapons of savage conspirators. As soon as World War II broke, the I. R. A. again raised that most popular of all Gael slogans, "England's difficulty will be Ireland's opportunity," and the Irish war for a Republic was on again-with the usual solicitation of funds from wild Irish in the U. S. Things got really serious last month when 150 I. R. A. stalwarts stole 1,084,000 rounds...