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...guerrilla fighter in the I.R.A.'s Dublin Brigade. He was jailed by the English four times, escaped once. After the 1921 treaty, by which Britain created the self-governing Irish Free State but retained jurisdiction over the six Protestant counties of Ulster, civil war flared between "pro-treaty" Irishmen and De Valera's followers, who cried that Ireland could not accept partition. Lemass, an officer on De Valera's staff, was captured by the other side and imprisoned for a year. In jail he continued his war-shattered education with a cram course in economics, politics...
Among those who stayed on, there was a paralyzing sense of frustration and fatalism. Life was not only hard-it was dull. To many Irishmen, the perverse, pervasive mediocrity of their culture was typified by Gaelic-worship...
...Many Irishmen were profanely skeptical, but the program so far has proved a gallivanting success. Ireland today is in the throes of a belated industrial revolution that is boosting living standards, diversifying its farm-based economy, and will increasingly absorb the talents that the nation breeds. Since 1955, 160 new Irish and foreign-backed plants have created 21,000 new jobs and are turning out goods ranging from transistor radios (Japanese) and pianos (Dutch) to heavy cranes for a German company and oil heaters for a French firm. Fifty more plants are nearing completion, most notably a French-owned aviation...
...golf and cards-to the relief of old poker cronies who usually wound up losers when Lemass played-to devote more time to the job. Sturdy (5 ft. 10 in.) and carefully groomed, he holds among his few foibles an aversion to the Byronic manes affected by many Irishmen, and he does not hesitate to bark at friends, underlings or his son when they need haircuts...
Though he has little of the personal magnetism of Old Spellbinder Dev, the Quiet Man's drive to get Ireland into the world's markets and forums has attracted some of the bright, restive young Irishmen who are showing a revival of interest in politics...