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State papers: Joe Kennedy told Éamon de Valera Irish visit was happiest moment in JFK's life
Picture: US Army “It will be a memorial that will forever touch our hearts, alive as he will always be for us in his beloved ...
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Éamon de Valera’s condolences over Adolf Hitler’s death sparked outrage as government was inundated with angry letters
Mr de Valera called to see the German minister to Ireland, Dr Eduard Hempel, on May 2, 1945, after he had heard of the death of Adolf Hitler. Surrounded by units of the Red Army in the ruins of ...
The Boston Globe falls victim to an elaborate hoax - On This Day in 1975
The Boston Globe said it had learned from a police source that Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev would enter ...
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De Valera in sensational escape from Lincoln Prison
The three fugitives are all high profile Sinn Féin figures. Mr de Valera, party president, together with Mr McGarry, a journalist who edited the O’Donovan Rossa memorial publication ...
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How a fruit cake helped Eamon de Valera escape Lincoln Prison
Mr O Cuiv first heard the tale of his ... which closed in 1878, hoping to see where de Valera enacted his great escape. However, the former inmate's grandson admits the plan was not without ...