Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the June 7, 1919 issue of America. For over 1,000 years Ireland possessed and fully exercised sovereign independence, and was recog­nized throughout ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Hundreds of people crowded Rocky Glen Park in Moosic on Sept. 7, 1919, but they weren’t there for ...

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 ...

A new two-part documentary series on Ireland’s Irish-language station TG4 “De Valera i Meiriceá” tells the extraordinary story for the first time of Éamon de Valera’s tumultuous trip to America in ...

Éamon de Valera during his tour of the United States in 1919 (Wikimedia Commons) One of the more entertaining stories from America’s history involves a bit of rhetorical sleight of hand that some ...

A young John F. Kennedy called the then-Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland Eamon de Valera a lunatic after visiting his ancestral home in Co. Wexford in 1945. JFK had recently left the United ...

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 ...

Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ”Springville,” is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed ...

That Eamon De Valera, noted Irish leader and head of the Fianna Fail is a Jew, is alleged by St. John Ervine, dramatist and critic, in an article in the current issue of Time and Tide, a weekly review ...

Only a few days remain until the next Irish president is elected. Of the nine presidents who have served Ireland, only one was born in the U.S. Eamon De Valera, born on 14 October 1882, was two years ...