Éamon de Valera believed that US President John F. Kennedy was an "easy target" after seeing him greet onlookers during his famous visit to Ireland in 1963. De Valera discussed a wide range of topics ...

A JFK Library interview from 1966 with Irish president Eamon de Valera reveals he had a premonition of the assassination of Kennedy and de Valera’s extraordinary assessment of the late young president ...

Political leadership highlights paradoxes statesmen face. Éamon de Valera, who shaped 20th-century Ireland, embodied paradoxes himself. An Irish nationalist born in the United States with a Spanish ...

The oath of allegiance to King George V that Eamon de Valera once vowed to have burned has been unearthed in a new RTE documentary. In Dev: Rise and Rule, the unusually large, shaky signature on the ...

At first glance, Éamon de Valera seems an unlikely patron of Ireland’s offshore wind revolution. Yet, to borrow from Tim Pat Coogan, the Long Fellow casts a long shadow in the most surprising of ...

Fifty years ago, on August 29 1975, Éamon de Valera died at the age of 92. De Valera was unquestionably the most significant political figure in Ireland of the 20th century. Fifty years after his ...

Madam — In Mark Anthony’s oration at Julius ­Caesar’s funeral, as William Shakespeare imagined it, he said that: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” ...