Word: valera
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...Dublin new President Eamon de Valera closeted himself to draft his reply to Great Britain's note, took no part in any of the 50 demonstrations staged in 50 Free State cities and towns by the Irish Republican Army?an illegal organization which under previous President Cosgrave was drastically repressed. To prevent clashes, the Regular Free State Army was ordered by President de Valera to remain in barracks...
Work done last week by President Eamon de Valera. called by his enemies a windbag, by his friends a Messiah of Freedom...
...Deputies were told by Minister of Finance John McEntee that the Free State will retain the ?3,000,000 ($10,860,000) which it is scheduled to pay this year to former British "absentee landlords" who sold out their Irish holdings and are owed this money. Messiah de Valera spoke of lowering taxation by this means...
Northern Ireland reacted with increasing bitterness to New York-born Southerner de Valera (his father was a Spaniard...
...decree of the de Valera Government 20 prisoners were set free before noon. Loudly cheered by the mob, they rode away in motor cars bearing banners, WELCOME HOME, PRISONERS! As soon as ex-Prisoner Frank Ryan got home he restarted his Dublin paper The Republic, demanded that the two Irelands be proclaimed one. Up hundreds of Dublin flagstaffs went the banner of the illegal and unconstitutional Irish Republican Army...