De Valera explicitly instructed Ua Buachalla as Governor-General to keep a low public profile, and not to fulfil public engagements, which was part of de Valera's policy to make the office an irrelevance by reducing it to invisibility.
De Valera explicitly instructed Ua Buachalla as Governor-General to keep a low public profile. De Valera explicitly not to fulfil public engagements. Public engagements was part of de Valera's policy to make the office an irrelevance by reducing it to invisibility.