The new American ambassador, Edward Walsh, is not the first to find himself at odds with Irish opinion makers – during his ...

Éamon de Valera was accused of attempting an armed uprising against the government. Then he made a daring jailbreak, and later became president of Ireland.

Éamon de Valera was born in New York City on October 14, 1882. We look at his birth, the controversy surrounding his birth certificate. At the southeast corner of Lex and 51st Street is a plaque ...

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 ...

De Valera was no anti-semite, though. As his relationship with Yitzhak Herzog – the first chief rabbi of the Irish Free State, who became the first chief rabbi of the newly-independent state of ...

De Valera went on to found the Fianna Fáil party in 1926, then serve as Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland from 1932–48, 1951–54 and 1957–59, as well as President of Ireland from 1959 ...

Éamon de Valera, former President of Ireland, became the third President of Ireland on June 25, 1959. Nicknamed ‘Dev,’ Éamon de Valera was one of Ireland's most dominant political leaders of ...

Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) was an Irish politician and patriot who served as Taoiseach (prime minister; 1932–48, 1951–54, 1957–59) and President (1959–73) of Ireland. He founded the ...

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 New York, he would have been executed along with the ...

Prof Éamon de Valera Jr charged substantial fees for his services, one of which was to guarantee babies to women who could not become pregnant. Tue, 09 Mar, 2021 - 06:30.