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Smoking election torches marched through Dublin streets by night last week. "Up de Valera!" roared the torch bearers, and Ireland's hero was carried shoulder high. Excited Irishmen swore on every hand that Eamon de Valera would soon succeed William Thomas Cosgrave as President of the Irish Free State. With a third of the votes still to be counted, Mr. Cosgrave conceded grimly, "It looks as though my Government would...
...length of time they have held power. Mr. Cosgrave has been President uninterruptedly since 1922-nearly ten years. Such a thing is not tolerated in the U. S., and the Irish people were not in a tolerant mood last week. The record of Cosgrave who was born in Dublin and the record of his Government-both excellent records-did not matter. Ten years is too long for a man to be President...
...Dublin Journalist Francis Ferriter feels that because he is good he must be God. But when his hunger and thirst after righteousness begin to include a craving for Prostitute Teresa Burke, he hates himself so much that he decides to murder her. To lend the act godly significance, he pretends to himself that by making an example of Teresa he will scare the rest of Dublin out of their dearest deadly...
Craftily he commits the murder so as to incriminate Teresa's lover, Dr. O'Leary, son of a prominent Dubliner, whom Ferriter hates. But he had not reckoned on the psychological aftermath, finds the next day that he has a feeling of horror rather than of a holy sacrifice well performed. To get his self-righteousness corroborated by others he tries to persuade the editors of two Dublin newspapers to feature the murder-story as a testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa...
...Easter Sunday, 1916, the rattle of shells in O'Connell Square, Dublin, from columns of British soldiery revealed to the word that another generation of Irish youth had made its bid for liberty. The leaders of the revolt were crushed as speedily as their predecessors had been, but among the rank and file there were those who carried on the tradition of insurgency even after peace had been patched up. Chief among them was Eamon De Valera, whose career closely parallels that of Hitler in Germany. Today, after a decade spent in leading a lost cause, he seems likely...