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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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  • 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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  • English. She was married to Taoiseach and third president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera. She was born Jane O'Flanagan in Balbriggan, County Dublin. Her father...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    the 3rd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade. The battalion adjutant was Éamon de Valera, future Taoiseach and President of Ireland. While out on a journey...
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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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  • 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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    decided not to declare war. Then on 11 March, Dáil Éireann President Éamon de Valera called for acceptance of a "state of war with England". The Dail voted...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    political party in Ireland. Founded as a republican party in 1926 by Éamon de Valera and his supporters after they split from Sinn Féin in order to take...
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    and Éamon de Valera issued his address to the "Legion of the Rearguard". Éamon de Valera continued as president Sinn Féin. In March 1926, de Valera, along...
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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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    Party as the only opposition party. In 1926, when Sinn Féin president Éamon de Valera failed to have this policy reversed, he resigned from Sinn Féin and...
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