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Also known as: Edward de Valera
Written by
Denis Rolleston Gwynn
Research Professor of Modern Irish History, University College, Cork, National University of Ireland, 1946–63. Author of The History of Partition.
Denis Rolleston Gwynn
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Original name:
Edward de Valera
Born:
Oct. 14, 1882, New York, N.Y., U.S.
Died:
Aug. 29, 1975, Dublin, Ire. (aged 92)
Title / Office:
president (1959-1973), Ireland
Founder:
Fianna Fáil
Political Affiliation:
Fianna Fáil
Sinn Féin
Role In:
Easter Rising
Irish Civil War
On the Web:
BBC - NI 100: Why did de Valera refuse to attend 1921 treaty negotiations? (June 04, 2025)
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De Valera’s career spanned the dramatic period of Ireland’s modern cultural and national revolution. As an anticolonial leader, a skillful constitutionalist, and a symbol of national liberation, de Valera dominated Ireland in the half century following the country’s independence.

Denis Rolleston Gwynn