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Ireland may be secured. It is in the spirit of that Settlement that I have chosen you to be the first Representative of the Crown in the Irish Free State.
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bills do not persist from one session to the next, the Free State
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With all my heart I pray that the blessing of God may rest upon you and upon the
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