Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost civil war, "Dev" struggled to free and unite the nation that had adopted him. When he died last week in Dublin, 92 and nearly blind, few of his countrymen could recall a time when De Valera's gaunt, beak-nosed visage was not a part of Irish political life...
...unlikely prophet to his people. Born in New York City to a Spanish musician father and an Irish immigrant mother, De Valera was sent to his grandmother's in County Limerick at the age of two, when his father died. He taught mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating...
...Rising. Amnestied in 1917, he returned to a hero's welcome in Dublin and leadership of a new party, Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). When the 1920-21 guerrilla war against Britain's "Black and Tan" occupying army led to Ireland's partition into Ulster and the Irish Free State, De Valera joined the "irreconcilables" of the Irish Republican Army in a cruelly scarring civil war against supporters of the treaty...
...scheduled to reconvene on Sept. 9. Although they have spent several months skirting the difficult issues, convention delegates know they can no longer postpone dealing with the two main areas of disagreement: power sharing for the Catholics, who are virtually excluded from positions of responsibility in Ulster; and the "Irish dimension," a Catholic proposal for some formal cooperation between the governments of Belfast and Dublin...
...civil war. Yet the army's presence is a constant temptation to snipers and the resulting casualties may eventually create a "bring-the-boys-home" mood in England. Meanwhile, the "Loyalist" camp, uncertain of Britain's dedication to Northern Ireland, is already becoming a Protestant Irish independence movement-one capable of fielding an army of some 25,000 men. In effect, the British Army faces an impossible task. It is supposed to create the security in which a political solution can be pursued. Such security, however, cannot be attained as long as there is no political solution...