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Introducing de Valera – The East Clare by-election and the rise of an Irish political leader
The East Clare by-election is remembered, a century later, because it announced Éamon de Valera’s arrival on the national stage. Looking back at it with the knowledge that he dominated Irish ...
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De Valera Departs after Release from Belfast Prison - On This Day in 1924
for a breach of the Belfast Home Secretary’s order banning his presence in the Six Counties, Mr Eamon De Valera was released from Belfast Jail yesterday. He was conveyed under police escort to ...
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De Valera in sensational escape from Lincoln Prison
Lincoln, 6 February 1919 - Éamon de Valera MP has escaped from Lincoln Prison along with Seán Milroy and Seán McGarry. The prison authorities are perplexed as to how it happened and despite ...
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JFK’s four days in Ireland among happiest of his life, his father told De Valera
The father of president John F Kennedy wrote to president Éamon de Valera telling him that his son’s four days in Ireland were among the happiest of his life. President Kennedy visited Ireland ...