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...Dublin, the 1,230 primary schoolteachers on strike for higher wages since last March (TIME, April i) made the front pages again. Into a Dublin football pitch where Prime Minister de Valera, President Sean O'Kelly and other bigwigs sat watching the All Eire Gaelic Football finals, marched some 100 schoolteachers With banners demanding mediation. The crowd of 80,000 roared delightedly: "Good old teachers." Next day the teachers, joined by some 500 parents, held a huge parade that held up Dublin traffic for an hour, while children chanted "We want school...
...next two days the teachers picketed the Dublin Mansion House, where De Valera's Fianna Fail Party was holding a convention. But Education Minister Thomas Derrig held firm. "The government," he said, "will not be coerced." Prime Minister de Valera threatened to lock out rural teachers who, by giving up a tenth of their salaries, were maintaining the Dublin strikers at nine-tenths of their pre-strike pay level. Stubborn De Valera was so wroth that he was reported pondering a general election on the strike issue...
...England is concerned," declared Prime Minister Eamon de Valera last week before the whole Dail assembled, "it is a matter that everybody must regard as wonderful the way in which the British are denying themselves to see that more supplies will be available in Europe...
...results were eminently satisfactory. Socialist Gibson, who looks like Eire's Eamon de Valera, won with 3,105 votes. Liberal Herbert Wiebe trailed him with 2,406 votes. Progressive-Conservative Rupert Ramsay with...
...gallery also included Eamon de Valera, young and "full of the seven deadly virtues"; William Butler Yeats, who in his "strange, deep way" loved the people more than Griffith or De Valera did "or ever could"; Patrick Pearse, the one militant leader to fight for Ireland "from the midst of the Faith" ("Ah, Patrick Pearse, you were a man, a poet, with a mind simple as a daisy"). And all the rest of the Irish, great & small: the Pat O'Rourkes, Maggie Burkes, Tim Sheas, Muldoon the Solid Man, the Rose of Tralee, Dr. Michael O'Hickey...