In writing the foreword, current Taoiseach Micheál Martin spikily suggests that while there is more media coverage than ever ...

Éamon de Valera is among the best-known and most scrutinised figures in Irish history, but one mystery surrounding him endures: who was his father? According to de Valera’s mother, Catherine Coll, his ...

Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher has said his party needs to "reconnect and re-engage" with young people, given it is facing "a ...

In 1919 a murder trial in Kansas City was interrupted by Eamon De Valera's tour of the United States. Dev was in America fundraising for the newly formed Dail Eireann and his journey across North ...

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 ...

There’s questions over whether Dev’s father existed at all in this RTÉ two-parter, where David McCullagh is on a mission to rehabilitate the statesman, but does he need rehabilitation? Éamon de Valera ...

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 ...

Analysis: You would have been stunned that de Valera, a rugby player on the southside of Dublin, would have been out with a gun on Easter Monday in 1916 When people look back at the life of Éamon de ...

I was very tempted to go with the headline ‘Was Éamon de Valera a b@stard?’ but I thought it best to keep it civil. A story by Rory Carroll in the Guardian questions the narrative around Éamon de ...

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.” ...