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...years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party cleared the way for his resignation as Prime Minister of Ireland by nominating him for the largely honorific job of President...
Forty years ago, Ireland's countryfolk used to sing: "When next we challenge England, we'll beat her in the fight, and we'll crown De Valera king of Ireland." But Dev himself made Ireland a republic. But for 21 of the last 27 years the inflexible ex-rebel, whose dour personality probably owes more to his Spanish father than his Irish mother, has been Ireland's Prime Minister or Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shock). A man of homely analogies, naive honesty and unbudgeable stubbornness, New York-born De Valera dominated Irish politics...
...Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself, he's right"). Characterizing an Irishman as one "who believes best what he knows to be untrue," Gogarty often colored his tall tales with even taller reminiscences...
...Replied Galway's Bishop Michael Browne: "Non-Catholics do not protest against the crime of conspiring to steal the children of a Catholic father, but they try to make political capital when a Catholic people make a peaceful and moderate protest." Even the venerable Taoiseach Catholic, Eamon de Valera, leaped into the Donnybrook: fethardism, he declared, is "ill-conceived, ill-considered and futile...
Textual Behavior. In Des Moines, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled out as grounds for divorce a charge by Mrs. Valera M. Clough that one of her husband's "cruel and inhuman" practices was to read aloud from Dr. Alfred Kinsey's study of American women...