Lemass
Americannoun
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"There was no need for second explosion - but Lemass wanted a bit of a kick out of it, that he would outclass the first one."
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2016
He cited the example of another prominient Fianna Fáil politician, Seán Lemass, who was Taoiseach from 1959-66 andput the country’s violent past behind him.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2016
By the time Sean Lemass became Taoiseach he knew full well from intelligence reports and so on who had been responsible for the murder of his brother Noel.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2016
But in the turbulent years when the Irish rebels fought against Britain's Black and Tans, Sean Lemass grew into a rugged guerrilla fighter in the I.R.A.'s Dublin Brigade.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Fianna Fail's new leader, Lemass was the antithesis of all the old fire-breathing heroes, talked trade and tariffs to the voters in intense, rapid-fire sentences that many found hard to follow.
From Time Magazine Archive
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