Editing Seán MacEntee (section)

==Retirement and death==
Following the [[1965 Irish general election|1965 general election]], MacEntee was 76 years old and retired from the government. This did not mean that he went quietly to the backbenches. He re-emerged in 1966 to launch a verbal attack on Seán Lemass for deciding to step down as party leader and Taoiseach. The two men, however, patched up their differences shortly afterwards. MacEntee retired from Dáil Éireann in 1969 at the age of 80, making him the oldest TD in Irish history.

He had a negative view of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBv1xB-r-EY|title=The Good Old IRA comment on the Provisional IRA|via=www.youtube.com|access-date=29 January 2017|archive-date=8 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208015116/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBv1xB-r-EY|url-status=live}}</ref>

MacEntee served in the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]] and repeatedly proposed amendments that would have watered down resolutions against the [[Greek junta]] (see [[Greek case]]).<ref>{{cite journal|first=Howard D.|last=Coleman|title=Greece and the Council of Europe: The international legal protection of human rights by the political process|issue=2|date=1972|journal=Israeli Yearbook of Human Rights|pages=121–|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zx8ElGllOH8C&pg=PA121|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=0792303520|oclc=1078033270|access-date=8 September 2020|archive-date=22 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922213032/https://books.google.com/books?id=zx8ElGllOH8C&pg=PA121|url-status=live}}</ref>

MacEntee died in [[Dublin]] on 9 January 1984, at the age of 94.<ref name=MilitaryArchives-01a>{{cite web|url=http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/detail.aspx?parentpriref=|title=Seán MacEntee|access-date=27 November 2017|publisher=Military Archives, Defence Forces of Ireland|quote=File Reference SP34REF16538<br />Name Seán MacEntee <br />Date of birth 1889<br />Date of death 1984-01-09<br />Civilian occupation Politician<br />Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 Yes <br />Grade A <br />Notes Awarded 14 years service for pension purposes.|archive-date=16 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516032123/http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/detail.aspx?parentpriref=|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=IT-1984-01-10a>Irish Times. 10 January 1984. This states that he died the previous day.</ref><ref name=EB-1985-01a>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britannica-Book-Year-1985-Events/dp/B000KZ0JA6|title=Britannica Book of the Year 1985: Events of 1984|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|year=1985|page=136|isbn=9780852294284 |access-date=28 November 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042347/https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britannica-Book-Year-1985-Events/dp/B000KZ0JA6|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Feeney-2009-01a>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1P8LAQAAMAAJ|title=Seán MacEntee: a political life|author=Tom Feeney|publisher=Irish Academic Press|year=2009|isbn=9780716529125|page=223|quote=He died in Dublin on 9 January 1984, at ninety-four years of age.[140]|access-date=1 October 2019|archive-date=22 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922213032/https://books.google.com/books?id=1P8LAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}} Note 140 on page 226 says "See Irish Times, 10 January 1984, for obituary". Original from the [[University of Michigan]]. Digitized 30 June 2010</ref>