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Authors: Noël Browne
8. The Cabinet proceeds to the declaration ceremony. I never favoured the top hats of my colleagues.
9. The full 1948 Cabinet with President Seán T. O’Kelly. Again I stand on the extreme left beside Seán MacBride.
10. John A. Costello and Seán MacBride being interviewed forPicture Postin November 1948 and explaining the repeal of the External Relations Act.
11. ‘In a cabinet room full of dull, earnest and dutiful plodders, Paddy McGilligan was an intriguing and polished anachronism. When he entered that room, always late, withfive or six three-inch-thick briefs under his arm, we all had to curb an inclination to stand to attention; the headmaster had arrived.’
12. October 1962. ‘There was the sudden realisation that a large and angry animal with sharp teeth was furiously tearing at your clothes, your body, your head, your face andarms. My first reaction was one of incredulity.’
13. With Sean Dunne TD and Jack McQuillan TD at Leinster House in 1961.
14. At home in Connemara 1985.