And yet as Adolf Mahr (1887 – 1951), he was at least once mistaken for a native son of Ireland. Which may explain why, ...

This article, by Eilis O'Hanlon, appeared originally in the Irish Independent HERE From the taoiseach ‘well-known for his partiality for whiskey’ to the leader prone to digression during 14-hour ...

Many northern nationalists have long criticised Éamon de Valera and Fianna Fáil for abandoning them when they came to power in 1932 ... and long thereafter. Ironically, he did a big favour for ...

When Éamon de Valera died 50 years ago, at the end of August 1975, there was a real sense that an era had ended. Tens of thousands filed past his coffin in Dublin Castle; thousands more lined 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 ...

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For too long it has been thought impolite, and even impolitic, to confront the naked truth about Dev’s record Éamon de Valera is responsible for a great deal of hardship. Photo: Getty On the 50th ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many years after the death of Éamon de Valera, I met an old man who told me that, as a serving soldier, he reported in sick rather than join the army firing party picked to do the honours at the ...

Jim Gavin would make an “exceptional president”, the deputy leader of Fianna Fail said, as he backed the former Dublin GAA manager to become the party’s nominee. During a day of several major ...