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Will Martin McGuinness end up as Irish president like De Valera? -- All things possible after handshake with Queen opens new possibilities (IrishCentral)

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:45:37 PDT

Martin McGuinnessSo Martin McGuinness and Queen Elizabeth II shook hands I wonder if it was what they thought it would be like? Time will tellBrian Hayes of Fine Gael called it a publicity stunt by the ‘failed Presidential candidate,’ a bit rich I thought coming from a government party whose candidate went around the country at the time of that election like a bloody old farmyard hen He only got 6 READ MORE

Little De Valera, Eamon O Cuiv, takes a new stance (IrishCentral)

Thu, 10 May 2012 05:30:15 PDT

Illustration by Caty BartholomewAs a young reporter with The Irish Press in Dublin in the sixties I occasionally was dispatched to cover President de Valera's public appearances He was very old then and I was always terrified that he would drop dead on my watch That was not because his family owned the paper, but because of the palpable fragility of one of the state's founding fathers You felt that only willpower kept the towering dark figure erect at all for the duration he was in the public eye READ MORE

De Valera’s grandson on verge of quitting Fianna Fail over EU Fiscal Treaty (IrishCentral)

Tue, 08 May 2012 04:56:46 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Fianna Fail founder Eamon De Valera’s grandson, Eamon O Cuiv, could walk away from the party on Tuesday night after his latest row with Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin.

Irish Minister says Ireland’s neutrality on Hitler was morally bankrupt (IrishCentral)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:37:09 PST

By: CATHY HAYES

Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, has apologized for the way the 10,000 Irishmen who fought Hitler were treated after World War II. The minister also said Ireland’s stance of “neutrality” during the war was morally bankrupt.

De Valera was the Irish equivalent of Korean dictator Kim Yung Il (IrishCentral)

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:15:15 PST

Watching the North Korean news announcer weeping as she revealed the death of Dear Leader Kim Yong- Il in North Korea reminded me of the crocodile tears we shed in Ireland many years ago after the death of Eamon De ValeraLike Kim, De Valera was our dear leader, a mythical figure when I was growing up in IrelandLike Kim he had his own brass band in the media which trumpeted everything he did from opening schools to meeting with minor world leadersLike Kim many of his people were suffering, the emigrant boats were full, many left behind barely surviving READ MORE

Eamon de Valera’s 1947 Dodge to become a tourist attraction in County Clare (IrishCentral)

Sun, 15 May 2011 06:58:32 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

The back Dodge saloon that was once the car of choice for Irish President Eamon de Valera has been restored to its former glory and will now become a tourist attraction in County Clare.

New book claims Eamon De Valera was a British spy (IrishCentral)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:00:09 PDT

By: KENNETH HAYNES

A new book by an American author is claiming that Eamon De Valera was so afraid of losing his life during the 1916 Rising that he turned informant for the British.