It is a victory for the independence of Ireland, and for an Irish Republic.' The Rising made de Valera a leader in prison; prison leadership made him a candidate in Clare; and Clare made him a ...
De Valera was Taoiseach for three periods from 1932–48, 1951–54, and 1957–59, and 14 years as President of Ireland over two full terms from 1959 to 1973. But this extraordinary career seemed ...
Eamon De Valera escaped from Lincoln Prison in Lincolnshire in 1919 and returned 31 years later in 1950, between his first and second terms as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland. How did this ...
Churchill turned sour when in the 1930s de Valera unpicked the treaty settlement and felt that by their pusillanimous acceptance of this, British governments let down those in Ireland who had ...
PEOPLE IN CLARE are being urged to get lost in a good book as Ireland Reads Day comes to libraries nationwide on Saturday,. Clare libraries will run a series of Ireland Reads events ...
Éamon de Valera, a 1916 Rising leader and later President ... was entertained in the same room of the same house during a visit to Ireland in 1961. The summer school was established in a single ...
Boland, secretary to De Valera - another of the young men or the Ireland of today who is full of the new dignity which Ireland has taken on and speaks with rare force and a biting incisiveness.