100 years ago, the fateful trip of Éamon de Valera to America would change Irish America and Ireland forever. The young revolutionary, the highest-ranking Irish leader left after the Easter Rising, ...
A JFK Library interview from 1966 with Irish president Eamon de Valera reveals he had a premonition of the assassination of Kennedy and de Valera’s extraordinary assessment of the late young president ...
Éamon de Valera, the face of Ireland in America for most of the 20th century, will be the subject of the October meeting of the Irish Cultural Society. The meeting will convene on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
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 ...
In writing the foreword, current Taoiseach Micheál Martin spikily suggests that while there is more media coverage than ever ...
Part one of two. A look at the rise and rule of Eamon de Valera - the third President of Ireland and arguably the most consequential figure in modern Irish history. For over half a century, he ...
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 ...
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 ...
Madam — In Mark Anthony’s oration at Julius ­Caesar’s funeral, as William Shakespeare imagined it, he said that: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” ...