Word: lemass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progress that at last has reversed the emigration rate. It will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould...
...nation's new mood is that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly...
News of last week's cease-fire was greeted skeptically by Eire's Prime Minister Sean Lemass, himself an old I.R.A. hand, who as a 16-year-old was captured by the English, booted in the backside and told to "go home to Mum." But though the I.R.A. craftily hid its weapons and warned that it planned to "prepare for another situation," its leaders would find few fellow countrymen willing to die in 1962 for the Six Green Fields...
...people have no say whatever in choosing their rulers. For many of those who do, it is campaign time in that periodic democratic phenomenon, the national election. Not all the votes will be so quiet and orderly as Ireland's, which last week returned Prime Minister Sean Lemass and his Fianna Fail Party to power with diminished strength. Nor will all the elections or campaigns be democratic. Yet even amid political repression, even where issues are listlessly debated or dimly understood,. the ballot box serves as the great political symbol of freedom, and its use-or misuse-anywhere...