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...Irish Republican leaders for an independent government of the 26 southern counties (Irish Free State), retaining its hold only on the six counties of the north.* The I.R.A. never accepted this partition. Its continued agitation so embarrassed government leaders that President Cosgrave outlawed it in 1931, and President De Valera (himself a onetime I.R.A. leader) in 1936 declared it an illegal organization. The I.R.A. went underground again...
...Eamon de Valera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Interview with Ireland's first President...
...when the time came to cast their votes last week, the discouraged citizens of Ireland dragged themselves to the polls without enthusiasm and in lackluster weariness turned Eamon de Valera out of office, quite possibly forever. When the returns were in, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party had lost eight seats in the Parliament, the Independents who often supported them had lost one. Altogether the opposition parties, led by John Costello's Fine Gael (United Ireland), had gained enough votes to give the anti-Dev coalition a shaky majority...
...sleepy detectives. In district after district where the caravan stopped, farmers and townsfolk clustered round for a look at the gaunt, aging (71) hero who had won political freedom for their nation in 1922 and guided its destiny almost constantly ever since. They listened respectfully as Eamon de Valera, now almost blind, once again outlined his austere plans for Ireland's future. They cheered him with the old campaign...
...final count, De Valera was defeated largely on the issue of the price of a pint of beer. "Surely," he said to one heckling voter in Limerick, "there is more in the world than the pint." But to many an Irishman, wearied by years of heavy taxation and high prices, unimpressed by the government's high-sounding plans to "harness the winds and the tides" in expensive power projects, the i s. 3 d. pint of beer was the whole story. Since De Valera was responsible for it, De Valera must...