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 ...

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 ...

In spite of de Valera's recent order, issued through the "Minister of Home Affairs," forbidding the Siki-McTigue boxing match and ordaining a period of national mourning "in view ...

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 ...

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.

“I, Eamon de Valera do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established, and that I will be faithful to H. M. King George V, his heirs ...

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 ...

A friendly biography of De Valera and a defense of his long career in the service of the Irish Republican ideal. ... Unique Dictator: a Study of Eamon De Valera Reviewed by Foreign Affairs July 1937 ...