Éamon de Valera ( 1920s )

* Éamon de Valera

The most prominent leader to escape execution was Éamon de Valera, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, who did so partly due to his American birth.

* Éamon de Valera ( 1926 – 1959 )

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* Oldest head of state ( elected ): Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland until 1973 aged 90 and 8 months.

* Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and President of Ireland, born in New York City.

Many lines in the west were decommissioned in the 1930s under Éamon de Valera, with a further large cull in services by both CIÉ and the Ulster Transport Authority ( UTA ) during the 1960s, leaving few working lines in the northern third of the island.

The republican survivors of the Rising, under Éamon de Valera, infiltrated and took over Sinn Féin in 1917 and committed the party to founding an independent republic.

The proceedings were presided over by Éamon de Valera, who had been elected President of Sinn Féin the previous day.

Of the 26 elected, six were also members of the Sinn Féin National Executive, with Éamon de Valera president of both.

Éamon de Valera

On 25 August Collins wrote to the Príomh Aire, Éamon de Valera, to inform him " the Volunteer affair is now fixed ".

* 1882 – Éamon de Valera, Irish political leader ( d. 1975 )

Just retired president Éamon de Valera, in his last public engagement of a fifty-six year political career, sits on the extreme left ( foreground ) of the picture.

The party traditionally used the nomination as a reward for its most senior and prominent members, such as party founder and longtime Taoiseach Éamon de Valera and European Commissioner Patrick Hillery.

When Éamon de Valera led Fianna Fáil to victory in the Irish Free State election of 1932, he began removing the monarchical elements of the constitution, beginning with the Oath of Allegiance.

Further, Prime Minister Éamon de Valera used the departure of the Monarch as an opportunity to remove all monarchical language from the Constitution of the Irish Free State.

* Taoiseach Éamon de Valera ( Ireland )

* March 23 – Éamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fáil in Ireland.

* February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition.

* March 17 – Éamon de Valera makes the speech " The Ireland That We Dreamed Of ", commonly called the " comely maidens " speech.

* July 21 – Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council ( prime minister ) of the Irish Free State by the Dáil ( parliament ).

The Irish Free State becomes " Ireland ", and Éamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach ( prime minister ) of the new state.

** Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president.

When Éamon de Valera became President of the Executive Council ( prime minister ) in 1932 he described Cosgrave's ministers ' achievements simply.

O ' Kelly was a close associate of Éamon de Valera, who served variously as President of Dáil Éireann / Príomh Aire ( prime minister from April 1919 to August 1921 ) and President of the Republic ( from August 1921 to January 1922 ).

* Éamon de Valera, president and prime minister of Ireland, whose Constitution of Ireland was influenced by Catholic social teaching

A message of apology for non-attendance was received from Éamon de Valera, the President of the Executive Council ( prime minister ), and also from the Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, T. D.

In June 1921, shortly before the truce that ended the Anglo-Irish War, David Lloyd-George invited the nationalist leader Éamon de Valera to talks in London on an equal footing with the Unionist leader ( and new Northern Irish prime minister ) Sir James Craig, which De Valera attended.

* Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford ( who succeeded his brother ( above ) in the Earldom ), British Labour Cabinet minister, biographer and friend of Éamon de Valera.

Although a senior figure on the " pro-treaty " side of Ireland's political divide, Desmond FitzGerald had remained friendly with anti-Treaty republicans such as Belfast man Seán MacEntee, a minister in Éamon de Valera's government, and father-in-law of Conor Cruise O ' Brien.

On the evening of 9 December 2008, the then Fianna Fáil minister Éamon Ó Cuív was on the campus for the official launch of a new € 50 million engineering building in place of his fellow minister Batt O ' Keeffe, who had pulled out due to his fears that he would encounter violence.

* March 9 – Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

Under Éamon de Valera's leadership from 1917, it had campaigned aggressively for an Irish republic.

In an era when democratic governments formed in the aftermath of the First World War were moving away from democracy and towards dictatorships, the Free State under Cosgrave remained unambiguously democratic, a fact shown by his handing over of power to his one-time friend, then rival, Éamon de Valera, when de Valera's Fianna Fáil won the 1932 general election, in the process killing off talk within the Irish Army of staging a coup to keep Cosgrave in power and de Valera out of it.

The Fianna Fáil government under Seán Lemass awarded him the honour of a state funeral, which was attended by the cabinet, the leaders of all the main Irish political parties, and Éamon de Valera, then President of Ireland.

Speaking at the launch, Éamon Ó Cuív, the Republic's Minister for the Gaeltacht, said that the area was " an example to other areas all over Ireland which are working to reestablish Irish as a community language ".

In March 2005, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív announced that the government of Ireland would begin listing only the Irish language versions of place names in the Gaeltachtaí as the official names, stripping the official Ordnance Survey of their English equivalents, to bring them up to date with roadsigns in the Gaeltacht, which have been in Irish only since 1970.

* Irish language storyteller Éamon a Búrc ( 1866 – 1942 ) was a resident in the early years of settlement.

Sinéad O ' Connor was born in Glenageary in County Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.

Éamon de Valera, came within 1 % of defeat in an Irish presidential election less than two months after the celebrations he played such a central part of.

In the aftermath of the Rising, survivors led by Éamon de Valera took over the party and used it as a vehicle to struggle for the establishment of an Irish republic.

He was chosen by Éamon de Valera to become Governor-General of the Irish Free State following James McNeill's resignation in November 1932.

Ironically, in view of the opposition expressed to the Oath by anti-treatyites, it was in fact largely the work of Michael Collins, based in its open lines on a draft oath suggested by the President of the Republic, Éamon de Valera, and also on the oath of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

" King George VI, as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, addressed his letters of credence to the " King of Italy "; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of Éamon de Valera, he addressed his letters of credence to the " King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia ," because the Irish Free State, unlike the United Kingdom, recognized the King of Italy's imperial title.

Today, he is best known for his popular and sometimes controversial books on aspects of modern Irish history, including The IRA, Ireland Since the Rising, On the Blanket, and biographies of Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.

His biography of Éamon de Valera proved the most controversial, taking issue with the former Irish president's reputation and achievements, in favour of those of Collins, whom he regards as indispensable to the creation of the new State.

< center > Members of the First Dáil, 10 April 1919First row, left to right: Laurence Ginnell, Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, George Noble Plunkett | Count Plunkett, Eoin MacNeill, W. T. Cosgrave and Ernest Blythe.