The oath of allegiance to King George V that Eamon de Valera once vowed to have burned has been unearthed in a new RTE documentary. In Dev: Rise and Rule, the unusually large, shaky signature on the ...

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 ...