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Michael De Valera, the treasurer of the cooperative’s board of directors, worried about space.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
The government officially denounced the attack, though it's said that President Eamon De Valera called the Irish Press newspaper, owned by his family, to suggest the light-hearted headline: "British Admiral Leaves Dublin By Air".
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2016
Dublin’s history is a maze of curiosity, confusion, and contradiction – Hitler bombed the city; Eamon De Valera, the country’s convoluted Abraham Lincoln, sent Germany a note of condolence immediately after his death.
From Forbes ● Oct. 15, 2012
However, many Irish nationalists, led by Eamon De Valera, continued to seek total independence from Britain.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
He’s upstairs sitting by the fire, smoking a cigarette, reading The Irish Press, which he loves because it’s De Valera’s paper and he thinks De Valera is the greatest man in the world.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
In 1937, it was reorganized under a new government headed by Éamon de Valera, an anti-treaty leader, and took the name “Ireland.”
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Collins was said to have been in possession of the Smith and Wesson revolver when he helped fellow republican leader de Valera escape from the English prison in 1919.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2022
When they arrived back in Dublin they were met by opposition among their Sinn Féin colleagues led by Éamon de Valera.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021
Although the British prime minister had met him in London before, and was prepared to do so again, de Valera repeatedly refused to go.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
Hipolito de Valera had not expected this roofless hilltop outpost would catch the full force of the breeze that rolled in off the bay.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
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