Word: mcneills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withdrew last week before the show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled "The Soldier's Song," always played when the Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas...
Unassuming James McNeill is King George's only Governor General who is a commoner. He is many times less imposing than any of his confreres. Offering him public insults has become almost a tradition of the de Valera government...
British and Irish opinion was further provoked last week by a tempest in the teapot of Irish Free State Governor Gen eral James McNeill, appointed by George V but obliged to act on the Free State Cabinet's advice. Similarly His Majesty is obliged to act upon the British Cabinet's advice, would never think of doing otherwise. But last week Governor Gen eral James McNeill flatly disregarded the advice of the Free State Cabinet that he keep to himself certain complaints which he desired to make...
...courses are possible. Either after a lapse of 18 months the bill will automatically become law, despite the Senate opposition, or President de Valera can advise Governor General James McNeill to dissolve the Senate at once and declare a general election. In Dublin it had been currently said that, "McNeill and de Valera aren't on speaking terms," but last week the President called on the Governor General, presumably spoke and was spoken...
Amid dead silence Dan Breen earnestly continued, "I did not go out to kill French to make room for James McNeill† or any other man to succeed him. I went out to kill French, and, if it were possible, to kill the last link of British supremacy in Ireland, and I would do the same again tomorrow morning if the occasion arose...