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Life
1891-1976; Taoiseach in two Inter-party [coalition] govts.; incumbent taoiseach [premier] at the announcement of the Republic status of Ireland, inaugurated Sunday, April 17th 1949 - an event he herald in an apparently snap decision while on Canada in Nov. 1948; purportedly said: ‘I am an Irishman second; I am a Catholic first’; no lit. works. DIB FDA
Criticism
David McCullagh, The Reluctant Taoiseach: A Biograpy of John A. Costello (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2010).