Word: kevin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abreast and stretching back a distance slightly greater than one mile. Within, tall white candles lighted the bier of a 34-year-old man robed in the habit of Our Lady of Carmel. His expression was serene. The pallid hands enfolded a crucifix resting upon his breast. This was Kevin Christopher O'Higgins, in life Vice President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. Three undetected gunmen had murdered him from their automobile (TIME, July 18); and last week Free State citizens seemed even more grief-stricken than after the murder in 1922 of the first provisional head...
Several long moments passed while Governor-General Timothy Michael Healy stared down at the corpse of his nephew. Then he bent down and kissed the forehead of Kevin O'Higgins. A moment later President William T. Cosgrave laid his right hand on the dead man's brow, standing for a moment in farewell contemplation...
Said Mr. Cosgrave: "This crime has not been committed by private individuals against Kevin O'Higgins. It was the fruit of a steady persistent attack against the State and its fundamental institutions. On the head of those who have devoted themselves to that attack lies the blood guilt...
...Valera, who certainly comes under the head of an attacker of the present State, said: "The assassination of Kevin O'Higgins is murder and inexcusable from any standard. I am confident no Republican organization is responsible for it, or would give it countenance. It is the duty of every citizen to set his face sternly against anything of the kind. It is a crime that cuts to the root of all representative government, and no one who realizes what it means could do otherwise than condemn and deplore...
...Died. Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State...