Word: eamonn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week near the Dáil Eireann, obstreperous lower House of the Irish Free State Parliament. The hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without taking the oath. News-mongers chuckled...
After the arrest at Londonderry of Eamonn de Valera, President of the Irish "Republic" (TIME, Nov. 3) the police removed him under strong guard to Belfast, where he was tried and condemned to one month's imprisonment, although the maximum term of incarceration prescribed is two years...
While the provisional government of Ireland is struggling to set up the administrative organization of the new Free State, Eamonn De Valera for so long styled its "President" is sulking in Paris. While the majority of Irishmen are uniting in an effort to put the infant republic on its feet, their erstwhile leader is busy organizing an International Irish League which is to start a new campaign to "obtain the absolute Independence of Ireland". He who was once the "white hope" of Irishmen--at home and abroad--has become the more spokesman of a few malcontents...
...hard to imagine arrogance and libellous presumption carried to greater limits on the public stage. The effrontery displayed in this instance surpasses even the procacity of Eamonn de Valera, who masquerading in the city of Boston two weeks ago, made bold to speak of "we here in America...