Back then, the only “President” that registered in Ireland was the Long Fellow, Éamon de Valera, who had either ... with dominion status, such as Canada. He knew the hardcore Republicans ...

An exception to this has, of course, been the case of Eamon de Valera, by far the most written about figure in modern Irish history. Yet while on the face of it he seems well-known to the public ...

Éamon de Valera, president of Dáil Eireann, was in the US from June 1919 to December 1920 to secure financial support for and diplomatic recognition of the new Irish republic. By March 1920 ...

It is 80 years since Winston Churchill used a victory address on the BBC World Service on May 13th 1945 to lambast Taoiseach Éamon de Valera and Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second ...

(Douglas Hyde, the Irish president, sent his secretary to the German envoy to express condolences on May 3. A week later, President Hyde received Dr Hempel at Aras an Uachtarain.) Walshe ...

Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish republic, got a reception from at least 50,000 people at Fenway Park yesterday afternoon such as no other Irish patriot ever received in Boston -- such a ...

Women objected to Eamon De Valera's vision for them, but it made little difference, says Diarmaid Ferriter The 1937 constitution acknowledged the right of women to vote and become TDs and citizens ...