RETURN TO IRELAND.
FORMER PEER.
DUBLIN, Dec. 6.
The former Viscount Taaffe has arrived here. He refused to comment on the suggestion that he was Mr De Valera’s nominee for the position of President of the Irish Free State.
He is applying immediately for Free State citizenship and resigning from the Czechoslovakian Army. He said he was not at present petitioning the British Government for the restoration of the peerage, of which his father was deprived in wartime.
A message from Prague,. dated November 6 stated that Viscount Taaffe, a descendant of a noble Welsh, family which settled in Ireland in the tenth century and then, 300 years ago, settled in Bohemia, intended to return to Ireland and live there permanently lie fought against Britain in the Great War, which caused the British Parliament to abolish the title. He is the only person in the world who holds the secret of the death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Hapsburg, in 1889. It was confided to him by his father before the latter’s death.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 9
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173RETURN TO IRELAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 9
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