In the middle of a Dublin night last week gaunt, scraggle-haired President Eamon de Valera took Ireland by surprise, proclaimed dissolution of the Free State Dail, ordered a general election Jan. 24 ...
Eamon is one of the traditional Irish names that has not yet emigrated to the US. This Irish name pronounced ay-mon was popularized by early president of the independent republic Eamon de Valera (birth name George), who was born in the United States to an Irish mother and a Cuban father. Eamon definitely has possibilities as a successor to the epidemically popular Aidan/Aiden.
Irish Central: On This Day: Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland in 1959
Éamon de Valera became the President of Ireland on . de Valera - nicknamed 'Dev' - was the third president of Ireland and one of the country’s most dominant political leaders of the 20th ...
On This Day: Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland in 1959
America Magazine: From 1919: President Éamon de Valera on Ireland’s right to independence
This week marks five decades since the death of Éamon de Valera. After John F Kennedy’s assassination, his wife and father wrote handwritten letters to the then President of Ireland President Kennedy ...
Éamon de Valera, the face of Ireland in America for most of the 20th century, will be the subject of the October meeting of the Irish Cultural Society. The meeting will convene on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Harvard University Press, $29.95, 308 pages, illustrated Had Eamon de Valera, one of the key players in the Irish Easter Rising almost exactly a century ago in the spring of 1916, not been born in New ...