On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved ac ...

Question marks over Éamon de Valera's eligibility to run for President in 1959 caused panic in official circles, according to newly published documents. The documents – which will be on display as ...

At first glance, Éamon de Valera seems an unlikely patron of Ireland’s offshore wind revolution. Yet, to borrow from Tim Pat Coogan, the Long Fellow casts a long shadow in the most surprising of ...

Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart, 34, who was killed in last week's Porepunkah shooting, has been honoured at a police funeral in Melbourne. Around 3,000 colleagues, friends and family members ...

There’s questions over whether Dev’s father existed at all in this RTÉ two-parter, where David McCullagh is on a mission to rehabilitate the statesman, but does he need rehabilitation? Éamon de Valera ...

Analysis: You would have been stunned that de Valera, a rugby player on the southside of Dublin, would have been out with a gun on Easter Monday in 1916 When people look back at the life of Éamon de ...

At long last, through underwhelming play and a multitude of injuries, George Valera is finally getting his crack at the Major Leagues in Cleveland. News broke on Sunday that Valera will be the first ...

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For too long it has been thought impolite, and even impolitic, to confront the naked truth about Dev’s record Éamon de Valera is responsible for a great deal of hardship. Photo: Getty On the 50th ...

The oath of allegiance to King George V that Eamon de Valera once vowed to have burned has been unearthed in a new RTE documentary. In Dev: Rise and Rule, the unusually large, shaky signature on the ...

Some had wondered whether he was beyond mortality, but the bell tolled for Éamon de Valera on August 29, 1975. He was 92 when he died in Linden House nursing home in Blackrock, Co Dublin. His wife ...