Comhairle na dTeachtaí Council of State, had Éamon de Valera as President. In 1926 de Valera resigned as President, left the Sinn Féin party and founded Fianna Fáil, which in 1927 entered the Fourth Dáil. Comhairle na dTeachtaí, never more than a symbolic body, was thereby rendered defunct. In 1930 Cumann na nGaedheal TDs alleged in the Dáil that de Valera had addressed Comhairle na dTeachtaí in December 1926, after the foundation of Fianna Fáil; this was to cast aspersions on de Valera's commitment to the Constitution of the Irish Free State. Comhairle na dTeachtaí Comhairle na dTeachtaí was an Irish republican parliament
Monroe Fein Monroe Fein Lieutenant Monroe Fein (1923–1982) was a U.S. Naval Officer and decorated veteran of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Later on, he was the captain of the ill-fated "Altalena" on behalf of the Irgun at the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Monroe Fein was born in Chicago to a middle-class Jewish family in 1923. His father was a lawyer and a donor to Zionist causes. As a child, he excelled in sports such as swimming, running, and boxing. When Fein entered university, he made good use his physical abilities in encounters with antisemites. Following the outbreak