Word: kilmainham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...