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Éamon de Valera, president of Dáil Eireann, was in the US from June 1919 to December 1920 to secure financial support for and diplomatic recognition of the new Irish republic. By March 1920 ...

The East Clare by-election is remembered, a century later, because it announced Éamon de Valera’s arrival on the national stage. Looking back at it with the knowledge that he dominated Irish ...

De Valera’s public career didn’t begin until he was in his 30s. His “first three decades … are surely significant in trying to understand the most complex political figure”, and most ...

Éamon de Valera’s well-known visionary speech of 1943, with its references to “cosy homesteads”, “the romping of sturdy children” and “the laughter of comely maidens”, envisaged ...