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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In 1993, Tim Pat Coogan published a long biography that cast a harsh light on de Valera’s vision of an Ireland “whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would ...

Eamon de Valera, the father of modern Ireland, was that rarest of political animals: the ascetic diva. He dressed in black and ate sparingly, his face lined and gaunt behind wire-rimmed glasses. One ...

Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera ...

Eamon De Valera, whose very name is to Irishmen a clarion of revolt, pronounced and swore upon the Holy .Bible at Dublin last week an oath: “I, Eamon De Valera, do solemnly swear true faith and ...

“Although we often spoke about the de Valera Forest, we weren’t actually able to get in here for many years because of overgrowth. Trees had fallen, bushes had taken over, and the entrance had ...

A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli goodwill Éamon de Valera Grove in Beit Keshet Forest near the Palestinian town ...