Harvard University Press, $29.95, 308 pages, illustrated 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 ...

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 Spanish ...

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St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church, which still celebrates six Masses each Sunday, was first established in 1873, when its most active parishioners were workers at nearby Grand Central train depot. Nine ...

[Éamon] de Valera was “held up” on the road from Tralee to Listowel on Saturday and subjected to a strict search by Free State detectives. The motor in which the ex-President was travelling and also ...

At first glance, Éamon de Valera seems an unlikely patron of Ireland’s offshore wind revolution. Yet, to borrow from Tim Pat Coogan, the Long Fellow casts a long shadow in the most surprising of ...

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 ...

THE two men who dominated modern Irish history and changed Ireland forever because of their enmity are together again. Newly-elected Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fail, made a ...

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 ...