As a documentary on Eamon de Valera’s time in America airs, historian and author Ryle Dwyer looks at how history is taught here — and explains why he did not take the subject for his Leaving Cert.

It is the flag of Mr [Éamon] de Valera and his friends, and it is the flag of those who denounce Mr de Valera and his friends as traitors of the Free State. At any rate, it is a flag which was ...

Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish republic ... and some of them carried the American flag and the flag of the Irish republic. The speakers’ platform was decorated with both colors.

HITLER'S DEATH:ÉAMON DE Valera was told that by expressing condolences ... The files also disclose that it was decided not to fly the Irish flag at half-mast at Áras an Uachtaráin in the ...

The Army No. 1 Band played 'Wrap the Green Flag Round Me' as de Valera was carried into Glasnevin Cemetery. In attendance at the funeral were family, friends, colleagues, politicians, dignitaries ...

Portugal flew flags at half-mast but got away with it because they had allowed the Allies use bases in the Azores. De Valera was on his own. His postbag from America told the story. "It’s a pity ...

Éamon de Valera became the President of Ireland on June 25, 1959. Éamon de Valera - nicknamed 'Dev' - was the third president of Ireland and one of the country’s most dominant political ...

Harvard University Press, $29.95, 308 pages, illustrated Had Eamon de Valera, one of the key players in the Irish Easter Rising almost exactly a century ago in the spring of 1916, not been born in ...

This was prominent Irish Republican Éamon de Valera, or “the man who was Ireland,” as one biographer called him. Born in New York City in 1882 and raised on his uncle’s farm in Bruree ...