On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved ac ...

Question marks over Éamon de Valera's eligibility to run for President in 1959 caused panic in official circles, according to newly published documents. The documents – which will be on display as ...

There’s questions over whether Dev’s father existed at all in this RTÉ two-parter, where David McCullagh is on a mission to rehabilitate the statesman, but does he need rehabilitation? Éamon de Valera ...

Analysis: You would have been stunned that de Valera, a rugby player on the southside of Dublin, would have been out with a gun on Easter Monday in 1916 When people look back at the life of Éamon de ...

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 ...

circa 1937: Irish republican leader, president of Dail Eireann and first Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland Eamon de Valera (1882 - 1975) in his office at Government Buildings. (Photo by General ...

Some had wondered whether he was beyond mortality, but the bell tolled for Éamon de Valera on August 29, 1975. He was 92 when he died in Linden House nursing home in Blackrock, Co Dublin. His wife ...

Half a century after Éamon de Valera’s death, historian Colum Kenny examines the legacy of Ireland’s most divisive leader President of the Executive Council Eamon de Valera accompanied by members of ...

[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 ...

In 2011, I was asked by a local history society to deliver a lecture under the title, “Is de Valera turning in his grave?” I found it intriguing that amid the economic, social and political turmoil ...