Eamon de Valera
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The ‘enthusiastic’ Nazi who went to Donegal to learn Irish - and spy - in 1937
- Irish News
- July 25, 2020, 01:09
It could be a story from a spy novel: the German scholar who claimed to be learning Irish in Donegal but who was instead an “enthusiastic” Nazi secret(...)

Family of Army officer forced to retire 50 years ago welcome new review
- Irish News
- May 8, 2020, 21:02
The family of former Irish Army officer Donal de Róiste have welcomed the news that the Government is to hold a review into the circumstances surround(...)

Record €10m libel award against Kenmare Resources cut to €250,000
- Courts
- February 28, 2019, 11:34
The Court of Appeal has cut a €10 million libel award – the highest ever in the State – against mining company Kenmare Resources to €250,000. The €10(...)

Eunan O’Halpin: My middle-aged, middle-class, revolutionary great-grandfather
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019, 00:00
PJ Moloney (1871-1947), my great-grandfather, was elected for Tipperary South in the UK general election that took place just weeks following the end (...)

The North and 1918
- Heritage
- April 24, 2018, 00:00
The year 1918 has for long been seen as a critical turning point in the emergence of the Irish revolution. Constitutional nationalism continued its re(...)

Auctions & Fairs: Autographed Ledwidge manuscript for auction in London
- Fine Art & Antiques
- March 17, 2018, 06:00
Auction Results Wednesday (March 14th) Sotheby’s, London. The Political Cartoon Collection of Jeffrey Archer. Among lots of Irish interest were: Lot(...)

De Valera, Collins ‘never republicans’, West Cork History Festival told
- Irish News
- July 30, 2017, 09:37
Eamon de Valera was never a republican, and his support and that of other Irish nationalist leaders for an Irish republic during the War of Independen(...)

Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish Constitution stands the test of time
- Opinion
- July 8, 2017, 05:00
How stands the Constitution 80 years after the Irish electorate approved it? Éamon de Valera saw it as a crucial document in the quest for increased s(...)

Man damaged Eamon de Valera’s grave in ‘moment of madness’
- District Court
- March 30, 2017, 15:31
A Dublin man accused of vandalising the headstone of former president and taoiseach Eamon de Valerahas told a court it was a “moment of madness”. Joh(...)
Exploring shape of post-Brexit Ireland
- Editorial
- March 18, 2017, 00:00
‘France was France without Alsace and Lorraine...Ireland is Ireland without the North.” Eamon de Valera’s remark to the New York Times in 1963 capture(...)