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    Ernest William Blythe (Irish: Earnán de Blaghd; 13 April 1889 – 23 February 1975) was an Irish journalist, managing director of the Abbey Theatre, and...
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    O'Higgins was joined in the organisation by fellow Cumann na nGaedhael TDs Ernest Blythe, Patrick McGilligan and Desmond Fitzgerald. O'Higgins had been chosen...
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    Governors‑General Tim Healy James McNeill Vice President Kevin O'Higgins Ernest Blythe Preceded by Michael Collins (as Chairman of the Provisional Government)...
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    Collins who took the lead in this decision'. However cabinet member Ernest Blythe recalled that, 'the decision to attack the Four Courts was almost automatic...
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  • their places as acting ministers. Two new members, Michael Hayes and Ernest Blythe, began serving as acting ministers on 17 July and were added to the...
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    under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914. FitzGerald took the place of Ernest Blythe. In 1915 FitzGerald was imprisoned for making a speech against recruitment...
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    July 1927 President W. T. Cosgrave Preceded by New office Succeeded by Ernest Blythe Minister for Justice In office 30 August 1922 – 10 July 1927 President...
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    rejected by the Abbey Theatre's drama school in Dublin by the director Ernest Blythe, because he could not speak the Irish language. At RADA, he was in the...
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    Minister for Defence 1922–1924 Succeeded by W. T. Cosgrave Preceded by Ernest Blythe Minister for Local Government and Public Health 1927–1932 Succeeded by...
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    1932 George Crosbie (CnaG) Apr. 1933 Eamonn Duggan (CnaG) Jan. 1934 Ernest Blythe (CnaG) Raphael Keyes (FF) Sep. 1934 Patrick Lynch (FF) CnaG: Cumann...
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    offer of another position of equivalent rank in the public service. Ernest Blythe said many years later that Cosgrave had become so alarmed by O'Duffy's...
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    Count Plunkett Eoin MacNeill Constance Markievicz John J. O'Kelly Ministers not in cabinet Robert Barton Ernest Blythe Seán Etchingham Laurence Ginnell...
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  • Minister for Home Affairs Kevin O'Higgins Minister for Local Government Ernest Blythe Minister for Agriculture Patrick Hogan Minister for Industry and Commerce...
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    Struggle", p.271, cited in Townshend, p.87. Others were Eoin Macneill and Ernest Blythe. William Forbes Patterson, a Canadian protestant convert to Sein Finn...
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    August 1975. In 1969, RTÉ Television interviewed Barton, alongside Ernest Blythe and James Ryan, about the 1918 general election. Glendalough House,...
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    Count Plunkett Eoin MacNeill Constance Markievicz John J. O'Kelly Ministers not in cabinet Robert Barton Ernest Blythe Seán Etchingham Laurence Ginnell...
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    O'Higgins 3 (1922) Cumann na nGaedheal 2nd CnG (minority) 4 (1923) 3rd Ernest Blythe 5 (Jun.1927) 4th 6 (Sep.1927) 5th 2 Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) TD for...
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  • MacEntee (SF) Eoin O'Duffy (SF) Ernest Blythe (SF) 3rd 1922 Patrick MacCarvill (AT-SF) Eoin O'Duffy (PT-SF) Ernest Blythe (PT-SF) 4th 1923 Patrick MacCarvill...
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    Party Government(s) Ernest Blythe 17 June 1919 26 August 1921 Sinn Féin 2nd DM Name Term of office Party Government(s) Ernest Blythe 26 August 1921 11 January...
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  • Arthur Griffith be appointed as Deputy President in his absence and that Ernest Blythe take a place at cabinet. De Valera resumed his position in the Dáil...
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    of a German arms shipment to coincide with the Rising. According to Ernest Blythe, Plunkett's republicanism did not prevent him from suggesting, at a...
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    Count Plunkett Eoin MacNeill Constance Markievicz John J. O'Kelly Ministers not in cabinet Robert Barton Ernest Blythe Seán Etchingham Laurence Ginnell...
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  • Blythe Bridge (/blaɪð brɪdʒ/) is a village in Staffordshire, England, south-east of Stoke-on-Trent. Blythe Bridge is so called as it is built around the...
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    July 1927 Cumann na nGaedheal 1·2 (W.T.Cosgrave) Justice (1922–1927) 2 Ernest Blythe (1889–1975) TD for Monaghan 14 July 1927 9 March 1932 Cumann na nGaedheal...
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    country, the ruler of that time would have become completely Irish." Ernest Blythe recalls that in January 1915 he heard Plunkett and Thomas MacDonagh...
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    Count Plunkett Eoin MacNeill Constance Markievicz John J. O'Kelly Ministers not in cabinet Robert Barton Ernest Blythe Seán Etchingham Laurence Ginnell...
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  • and the Dominion of Canada, it was remarked that the Vice-President (Ernest Blythe) had signed the agreement "on behalf of His Majesty's Government in...
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    March 1932 – 29 December 1937 President Éamon de Valera Preceded by Ernest Blythe Succeeded by Himself as Tánaiste Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann In...
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  • Michael Hayes Patrick Hogan Fionán Lynch Joseph McGrath Kevin O'Higgins J. J. Walsh Substitutes Ernest Blythe W. T. Cosgrave Patrick Hogan Michael Hayes...
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    Count Plunkett Eoin MacNeill Constance Markievicz John J. O'Kelly Ministers not in cabinet Robert Barton Ernest Blythe Seán Etchingham Laurence Ginnell...
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