Word: lemass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemass' retirement wound up a 40-year career that both shook and shaped Irish history. A fierce-eyed teen-age participant in the 1916 Easter Week uprising and later a member of the underground Irish Republican Army, Lemass turned politician after independence in 1921 when Britain created the self-governing Irish Free State but retained jurisdiction over the six Protestant counties of Ulster. Eleven years later, the Fianna Fail came to power, led by Eamon de Valera, and in 1959, when Prime Minister De Valera moved up to the presidency, Lemass stepped in as Prime Minister. In power...
...finally came. In a long-awaited press conference in Dublin's Parliament building, 67-year-old Prime Minister Sean Le-mass announced his reluctant conclu sion that "responsibility should now pass to a younger man." The next day in the same smoky conference room, the 71 members of Lemass' Fianna Fail Party selected their new Prime Minister and Taoiseach (leader of the clan): former Finance Minister John Mary Lynch...
...Taoiseach (pronounced Tee-shock), Lynch, a tall, astute administrator with a soft, musical brogue, is expected to carry on where Lemass left off-even to reappointment of most of Lemass' Cabinet. The Cork-born former athlete has his work cut out. The Fianna Fail, which holds only 71 of Parliament's 144 seats, faces two tough by-elections expected in February. If Fianna Fail loses both, Lynch's party could face a general election before next summer...
Religious antagonisms have long been strong in Ireland, especially since 1690, when Britain's "Glorious Revolution" secured Protestant ascendancy to Ulster. To try to ease the old hatreds, Protestant O'Neill broke all precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley...
Prime Minister O'Neill, 51, who leads the pro-British Unionist Party, has shrewdly helped quiet the pro-Eire agitation by doing earlier this year what no other Ulster P.M. ever dared do: he invited Ireland's Premier Sean Lemass for lunch in Belfast. Many of O'Neill's supporters were outraged, but the dapper, six-foot aristocrat blithely ignored his Orangemen's indignation. "I hoped to establish more normal relations with our southern neighbors," he said coolly. "Since we share the same island, this is surely sensible...