As fans of Netflix smash The Crown will know, the abdication of King Edward VIII in December 1936 was the greatest crisis faced by the British royal family in the past century. But what did Éamon de ...

A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli ...

Almost a century ago, Éamon de Valera quit as president of Sinn Féin after he lost a vote over whether his party should take their seats in the Free State Dáil.

He saw that protectionism would not work in the postwar world and emphasised the importance of attracting outside investment.

Winston Churchill played a “venal and unscrupulous” role in the United Kingdom ’s abdication crisis in 1936 when King Edward ...

Irish civil servants concluded Winston Churchill was “unscrupulous” as they discussed how the crisis over King Edward VIII’s proposed marriage to an American divorcee could be used to the Irish Free ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

One hundred years ago, in June and again in November, Éamon de Valera visited Butte in search of the recognition of Irish Americans for his fledgling would-be government, and for funds to operate it.

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It was the summer of 1952 when the Man himself—Éamon de Valera, the taoiseach — arrived by train in my hometown of Ballina, Co Mayo, to give his support to a local Fianna Fáil politician up for ...

Many northern nationalists have long criticised Éamon de Valera and Fianna Fáil for abandoning them when they came to power in 1932 ... and long thereafter. Ironically, he did a big favour for ...