naoi fiche Lunasa, De' Domhnaigh( 29 August, Sunday), or in Manx, nuy feed Luanistyn, Jedoonee In 1975 Eamon DeValera, Irish statesman, died. In 1919 he was elected president of the Sinn Fein Convention. In 1920 he was part of the first civil government. In 1922 he resigned from the Dail with his following in protest of the provisions in the home rule treaty which maintianed ties with the English crown. He later was prime minister. My book doesn't go that far, but I have menory of that. Submitted by John Laughland