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    Éamon de Valera (/ˈeɪmən ˌdɛvəˈlɛərə, -ˈlɪər-/, Irish: [ˈeːmˠən̪ˠ dʲɛ ˈwalʲəɾʲə]; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901...
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  • English. She was married to Taoiseach and third president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera. She was born Jane O'Flanagan in Balbriggan. Her father, Laurence,...
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  • Magdalene asylums to childless couples. Éamon was the third child of Sinéad (née Flanagan) and Éamon de Valera. His mother and father were school teachers...
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  • Éamon de Valera Forest (Hebrew: יער איימון דה ואלירה) is a forest in Israel, near Nazareth. It was planted in 1966 and named after American-born Irish...
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  • 1979 to 1984. Síle de Valera was born in 1954, in Dublin, Ireland to Terence de Valera (1922–2007), the youngest child of Éamon de Valera, and his wife Phyllis...
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  • megalithic tombs of his country. He was the son of Éamon de Valera and Sinéad de Valera. De Valera took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Celtic studies from...
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  • of Éamon de Valera and Sinéad de Valera. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Juan Vivion de Valera. Born in Dublin in 1910, Vivion de Valera was...
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    Éamon de Valera, when she died at the age of 93 in February 2012. He is a nephew of Vivion de Valera, a former TD, and is a first cousin of Síle de Valera...
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    Minister", its literal translation is 'chieftain' or 'leader'. Although Éamon de Valera, who introduced the title in 1937, was a democratic politician who...
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    called on 9 May by President Douglas Hyde on the advice of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. The general election took place in 34 parliamentary constituencies...
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    May 1938 by the Presidential Commission on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. It was a snap election, less than a year after the previous election...
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    proclamation of President Douglas Hyde on the advice of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. It took place in 34 parliamentary constituencies for 138 seats in...
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  • the 14th Dáil. It was a single-party Fianna Fáil government led by Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach. It lasted for 1,086 days. The 14th Dáil first met on...
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    24 April by President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. The general election took place in 40 Dáil constituencies throughout...
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  • office was first held by W. T. Cosgrave from 1922 to 1932, and then by Éamon de Valera from 1932 to 1937. By convention Taoisigh are numbered to include Cosgrave...
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  • held on 17 June. It was a single-party Fianna Fáil government led by Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach. Fianna Fáil had been in office since the 1932 general...
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    1948 by the President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. The general election took place in 40 constituencies throughout Ireland...
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  • held on 23 June. It was a single-party Fianna Fáil government led by Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach. Fianna Fáil had been in office since the 1932 general...
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  • did not appear in the constitution. This was the title preferred by Éamon de Valera during his visit to the United States in 1920–1921. The president of...
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    adopted by Ireland's Oireachtas at the instigation of the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera upon the outbreak of World War II in Europe. It was maintained throughout...
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    appointment of a new government of Ireland. Costello lost office, and Éamon de Valera was appointed Taoiseach, forming the 8th government of Ireland, a single-party...
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  • He held a number of ministerial positions within the governments of Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass. Smith was born in the town of Bailieborough, County...
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    Éamon de Valera was re-appointed leading a Fianna Fáil government, which fell one seat short of an overall majority. Newsreel footage of campaign De Valera...
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    source weapons for use by the IRA. O'Kelly was a close associate of Éamon de Valera, who served variously as President of Dáil Éireann (Prime Minister...
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    on to lead a subsequent government as taoisigh. Namely, they are: Éamon de Valera; John A Costello; Liam Cosgrave; Jack Lynch; Garret FitzGerald; Charles...
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    1966 Irish presidential election (category Éamon de Valera)
    between the incumbent president Éamon de Valera, representing Fianna Fáil, and Tom O'Higgins of Fine Gael. De Valera, one of the most prominent figures...
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  • mainly middle-class or Protestant readership. The Irish Press founder Éamon de Valera said the paper's objective was: "To give the truth in the news, that...
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  • pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty components (led by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera respectively) managed to agree on a "Coalition Panel" of Sinn Féin...
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    1959 Irish presidential election (category Éamon de Valera)
    Wednesday, 17 June 1959. Éamon de Valera, then Taoiseach, was elected as president of Ireland. A referendum proposed by de Valera to replace the electoral...
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  • Spanish writer Éamon de Valera (1882–1975), Irish statesman Juan Valera (1824–1905), Spanish politician, diplomat and author Máirin de Valéra, (1912–1984)...
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