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 ...

Taoiseach Éamon de Valera’s visit to the German legation on the death of Adolf Hitler caused shock and bewilderment in Irish America. Nothing de Valera did in his long career attracted the same ...

Éamon de Valera, pictured on a tour of his native America during the 1919-1921 Irish War of Independence On this day 100 years ago, negotiations began in London which led to the turbulent birth of an ...

A new two-part documentary series on Ireland’s Irish-language station TG4 “De Valera i Meiriceá” tells the extraordinary story for the first time of Éamon de Valera’s tumultuous trip to America in ...

Éamon de Valera, for five decades the dominant figure in Irish politics, has long since been eclipsed in popular memory and esteem. He has been supplanted not so much by any of his successors, but by ...

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 life for ...

‘It is a privileged honor, personal as well as official, to greet most cordially in the person of Éamon de Valera, the President of the Irish Republic. I do so officially as Chief Executive of the ...

In Dublin, Ireland, 90 years ago today, an incident occurred that would signal the beginning of the end for the British colonial empire. It was the work of obscure men who, in their often fumbling, ...

A young John F. Kennedy called the then-Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland Eamon de Valera a lunatic after visiting his ancestral home in Co. Wexford in 1945. JFK had recently left the United ...