Word: valera
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About this time the British conveniently "discovered" a pro-German plot in Ireland and in a huge midnight round-up arrested and carted off to England hundreds of prominent Sinn Feiners, including de Valera. The T.D.'s still at large then met, proclaimed the Irish Republic and named de Valera its "President." After that daring supporters smuggled the "President" out of jail, and the Irish "secret service" of Michael Collins, also a veteran of the Easter Rebellion, managed to get him on a ship to the U. S., long fertile ground for Irish nationalism. There he did what many...
...Type. The Ireland from which de Valera came to the U. S. in 1919 was not the same island from which Irishmen had fled to the U. S. in the times of Cromwell and William of Orange, not the same island whose people fled to the U. S. during the potato famines of a century ago. Meanwhile, it had had a cultural renaissance. Irishmen had begun again to take poetic pride in their land, with its purple mountains, its lakes and glens peopled with green-coated, leather-aproned leprechauns, the heather-crowned hills of Donegal, the rocky outlines...
...Grady had led a new literary revival. The Irish theatre had blossomed. Irish journalism had come out of hiding. In 1893 a Gaelic League had begun to revive the use of the Irish language and the traditional dances and music of Ireland. An early member was Eamon de Valera...
...Valera raised money for a "national loan" to the Irish Republic; late in 1920 he returned in disguise to find Ireland in full revolt. The "Black-and-Tans," the khaki-coated, black-trousered special English police, tried to "stamp out rebellion with a strong hand...
...rebellion had got so out of hand that the British either had to clear out of Ireland, dispatch a considerable military force or negotiate. They chose negotiation. A truce was called and de Valera sent five men to London to talk peace. They signed late that year a treaty establishing dominion status for Ireland, but permitting the six predominantly Protestant northern counties to withdraw...