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Awaiting a firing squad in Dublin's Kilmainham Jail, Dev was reading St. Augustine's Confessions when he learned that his death sentence had been commuted, possibly because of his U.S. citizenship. He was the only battalion leader to survive the 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...
...politics" act that has immortalized his name in U.S. politics still hoped to give his fellow judges an occasional helping hand in court. Said he with judicial precision: "When I retired, I did not resign." - On an inspection tour of Dublin's newest national monument- a restoration of Kilmainham Jail that epitomized British domination - Eire's President Eamon de Valera, 79, came not as a stranger. "The Long Fella" himself was the last prisoner to stride from behind its walls into the dawn of Irish freedom in 1924. Said he last week: "I scratched my name...
...Dublin, the greenish, 3½-ton statue of Queen Victoria which has aroused Irish ire for 41 years (TIME, July 12), was finally removed to a Kilmainham storehouse (along with the plaque inscribed from the Queen's loyal "Irish subjects") to make room for a parking...
...Black & Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time with 7,000 men in his command. He found the revolutionary movement...
...Despard, sister of Field Marshal Earl French, had her bed carried outside the Kilmainham Prison, stating that she would remain in it on hunger strike until three women prisoners, also on hunger strike, are liberated...