Walt Disney requested a meeting with the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Éamon de Valera, while on a research mission that led to the creation of “Darby O’Gill and the Little People.” ...
With consciously maddening meekness, the Taoiseach* (Eire’s Prime Minister) turned his other cheek. To Winston Churchill’s blistering attack on his World War II neutrality (TIME, May 21), Eamon de ...
MSN: Two-part RTE documentary dismantles some of central myths around Eamon de Valera's life
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 ...
Two-part RTE documentary dismantles some of central myths around Eamon de Valera's life
MSN: New Eamon de Valera documentary accuses him of the 'ultimate betrayal' of women
A new documentary about legendary political figure Eamon de Valera criticises his attitude to women and accuses him of the "ultimate betrayal". Gender equality was written into the 1916 Proclamation, ...
New Eamon de Valera documentary accuses him of the 'ultimate betrayal' of women
IrishCentral: Walt Disney asked to meet Éamon de Valera while researching leprechauns
The Irish Times: Éamon de Valera in Ballsbridge, ‘Sam A Barclay Beckett’ in Foxrock: Who was where 100 years ago?
Valera was one of relatively few citizens to exercise his right to complete the first census of the Irish Free State in his native tongue. He did so in an eight-roomed house on Serpentine Avenue in ...