Ennis, 16 August 1923 - There were dramatic scenes in Ennis yesterday where Eamon de Valera was arrested by soldiers of the National Army while he was addressing an election rally. According to an ...

The East Clare by-election is remembered, a century later, because it announced Éamon de Valera’s arrival on the national stage. Looking back at it with the knowledge that he dominated Irish ...

Ennis, 12 July 1917 - Eamon de Valera has won the East Clare by-election for Sinn Féin. The victory margin was an extremely comfortable one – de Valera secured 5,010 votes as against the 2,035 ...

In 1943, taoiseach Éamon de Valera spoke to the Agricultural Science Society at University College Dublin about the erection of second houses on farms for farmers’ sons who desired to marry ...

Éamon de Valera’s well-known visionary speech of 1943, with its references to “cosy homesteads”, “the romping of sturdy children” and “the laughter of comely maidens”, envisaged ...