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The same year, having made his name as a lawyer defending former comrades in the IRA, the new “republican” party led by MacBride, Clann na Poblachta, threatened Fianna Fáil’s dominance by winning two byelections. It then won 10 seats in the “put them out” election of 1948. MacBride facilitated the transfer of this collection through diplomatic channels, which may have proved more useful than the prayers of schoolchildren in Dublin. Neither the Vatican, nor McQuaid, were pleased when Ireland – a Catholic state in their eyes – did not join Nato.
In 1989, one year after MacBride’s death, as the two superpowers engaged meaningfully to cool tensions, the “delighted” taoiseach,, welcomed the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to Ireland. Then the Berlin Wall fell, and the Cold War came to an end, and with it the geopolitical certainties of that period.
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