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Thu 05 May 2010How Dev was nearly lost to science
Eamon de Valera might not have made it to the 1916 Rising had he got the job he wanted at UCC three years earlier, writes CORMAC SHERIDAN
THE COURSE of Irish history might have looked very different had a job fallen right for an aspiring young mathematician. Éamon de Valera very nearly won a post as professor of mathematics in 1913, something that would have diverted him from his eventual life in politics.
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