Eamon de Valera
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Nationalism
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: The leading Irish statesman of the twentieth century, de Valera embodied the Irish nationalist movement and served as leader of the independence movement and later as head of the Irish government for twenty-one years.
Early Life
Eamon de Valera was born in New York in 1882. His immigrant Irish mother, Catherine Coll, met a Spaniard, Vivion de Valera, and they were married in 1881. Of his parents he remembered little, for his father died in 1885 and he was sent to Ireland to be reared by his maternal grandmother and uncle. He attended...
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