Eamon de Valera - Changes. December 29, 1937: Following the introduction of Bunreacht na hÉireann the following changes take place: the title of President of the Executive Council changes to Taoiseach, the title Vice-President of the Executive Council changes to Tánaiste and the title Executive Council changes to Government. ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. May 29, 1936: Joseph Connolly retires as Minister for Lands & Fisheries. June 3, 1936: Frank Aiken takes over the Lands & Fisheries portfolio as well as remaining Minister for Defence. November 11, 1936: Gerald Boland becomes the new Minister for Lands & Fisheries. Oscar Traynor joins the Cabinet as Minister for Posts & Telegraphs. ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. September 8, 1939: An extensive Cabinet re-shuffle take splace following the outbreak of The Emergency. Seán T. O'Kelly takes over the Eduaction portfolio on a temporary basis. P.J. Ruttledge is appointed the new Minister for Local Government & Public Health. Gerald Boland succeeds Ruttledge as Minister for Justice. Seán Lemass is appointed to the new position of Minister for Supplies. Oscar Traynor is appointed Minister for Defence. Tomás Ó Deirg takes over as Mnister for ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. June 14, 1945: Seán T. O'Kelly resigns from the Cabinet after being elected President of Ireland. June 19, 1945: The Department of Co-Ordination of Defensive Measures is abolished following the end of "The Emergency". Seán Lemass and Frank Aiken succeed Ó Ceallaigh as Tánaiste and Minister for Finance respectively. July 31, 1945: The Department of Supplies is abolished with all functions transferred to the Department of Industry & Commerce. Janua ...

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Eamon de Valera[1] (born Edward George de Valera, sometimes Gaelicised Éamon de Bhailéara; October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975), was an Irish politician, best known as a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th Century, and the Republican ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. May 16, 1957: Seán Moylon is appointed Minister for Agriculture. June 26, 1957: Micheál Ó Moráin joins the Cabinet as Minister for the Gaeltacht. December 4, 1957: John Ormonde joins the Cabinet as Minister for Posts & Telegraphs. November 20: Frank Aiken takes over as acting Minister for Agriculture following the death of Seán Moylon. November 27, 1957: A Cabinet re-shuffle takes place: Seán MacEntee takes on the Social Welfare portfo ...

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Born in the New York Nursery and Child Hospital in New York City in 1882 to an Irish mother, he stated that his parents, Catherine Coll de Valera Wheelwright and Juan Vivion de Valera, a Spanish-Cuban settler and sculptor, were married in 1881 in New York. However, exhaustive trawls through church and state records by genealogists and by his most recent biographer, Tim Pat Coogan (1990) have failed to find either a church or civil record of the marriage. Furthermore, no birth, baptismal, marriage or death certificate has ever been found for ...

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Born in the New York Nursery and Child Hospital in New York City in 1882 to an Irish mother, he stated that his parents, Catherine Coll de Valera Wheelwright and Juan Vivion de Valera, a Spanish-Cuban settler and sculptor, were married in 1881 in New York. However, exhaustive trawls through church and state records by genealogists and by his most recent biographer, Tim Pat Coogan (1990) have failed to find either a church or civil record of the marriage. Furthermore, no birth, baptismal, marriage or death certificate has ever been found for ...

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During the 1930s, de Valera had systematically stripped down the Irish Free State constitution that had been drafted by a committee under the nominal chairmanship of his great rival, Michael Collins. In reality, de Valera had only been able to do this due to three reasons. First, though the 1922 constitution was supposed to require amendment through public plebiscite eight years after its passage, the Free State government under W.T. Cosgrave had amended that period to 16 years, meaning that until 1938 the Free State constitution could be am ...

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Germany's interest in Ireland before and in the early years of World War II (called The Emergency in the Free State) including investigating whether the IRA could be used against Britain, investigating the tactical advantages of invading Ireland, and negotiating with the Irish government. Germany courted the Irish government, before and during the war, though with little success. De Valera kept the Free State neutral in World War II. The British MI5 naturally took more than a passing interest in his deeds and whereabouts. Whereas the neutral ...

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In his Victory in Europe Day radio broadcast, British Prime Minister and old de Valera adversary Winston Churchill launched a strong attack on the Irish government's policy of neutrality, while being careful to distinguish that from any criticism of the Irish people as a whole or of individual Irishmen - a nuance that may well have failed to be communicated. De Valera's reply, also in a radio broadcast, won widespread respect and praise in Ireland from even his bitterest opponents. However, at the time and in the emotions of the moment, it l ...

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In the 1932 General Election Fianna Fáil secured 72 seats and became the largest party in the Dáil, although without a majority. De Valera was appointed President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) by Governor-General James McNeill on March 9. He at once initiated steps to fulfil his election promises of abolishing the oath and withholding land annuities owed to Britain. In retaliation the British imposed economic sanctions against Irish exports, and the resulting economic war caused much distress. On his advice the appointme ...

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Eamon de Valera | John A. Costello | Seán Lemass | Jack Lynch | Liam Cosgrave | Charles Haughey | Garret FitzGerald | Albert Reynolds | John Bruton | Bertie Ahern Príomh Aire 1919—1921 Cathal Brugha | Eamon de Valera President of the Irish Republic 1921—1922 Eamon de Valera | Arthur Griffith Chairman of the Provisional Government 1922 Michael Collins | W.T. ...

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Sinn Féin won a huge majority in the 1918 general election, largely thanks to the executions of the 1916 leaders and the threat of conscription. They won 73 out of 104 Irish seats, with about 47% of votes cast. However, such was the level of support for the party, many seats were uncontested and so this percentage is lower than it would have been had this not been the case. In January 1919, those Sinn Féin MPs, calling themselves Teachtaí Dála, assembled in the Mansion House in Dublin on January 21, 1919 and formed an Irish parliament, k ...

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On April 24, 1916 the rising began. De Valera occupied Boland's Mills, Grand Canal Street in Dublin, his chief task being to cover the south-eastern approaches to the city. After a week of fighting the order came from Pádraig Pearse to surrender. De Valera was court-martialled, convicted, and sentenced to death, but the sentence was immediately commuted to penal servitude for life. It is often thought that he was saved from execution because of American citizenship. That is technically incorrect. He was saved by two facts: firstly, he was h ...

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After the Emergency the position of Fianna Fáil began to weaken. Sixteen years in power finally took its toll on the electorate and the opposition political parties. In 1948 de Valera was ousted from power by the first Inter-Party Government, with John A. Costello as Taoiseach. De Valera, as leader of the opposition, embarked on a world campaign on the partition question. In 1951 he was back in power but without an overall majority. He was Taoiseach again of what many would consider to be his worst government. No new ideas emerged and the same faces that formed his fir ...

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His last bid at constitutional reform failed when the people, by referendum, rejected his proposal that proportional representation be replaced by the direct vote. On the same day in June 1959 he was elected President of Ireland in succession to Sean T. O'Kelly, defeating General Seán MacEoin by a comfortable majority. By now, he was almost totally blind, but hid the fact through the use of an aide, whose job was to whisper sotto voice to de Valera instructions such as the number of steps to take, or where to 'look' (In one famous ph ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. September 8, 1939: An extensive Cabinet re-shuffle take splace following the outbreak of The Emergency. Seán T. O'Kelly takes over the Eduaction portfolio on a temporary basis. P.J. Ruttledge is appointed the new Minister for Local Government & Public Health. Gerald Boland succeeds Ruttledge as Minister for Justice. Seán Lemass is appointed to the new position of Minister for Supplies. Oscar Traynor is appointed Minister for Defence. Tomás Ó Deirg takes over as Mnister for ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. June 14, 1945: Seán T. O'Kelly resigns from the Cabinet after being elected President of Ireland. June 19, 1945: The Department of Co-Ordination of Defensive Measures is abolished following the end of "The Emergency". Seán Lemass and Frank Aiken succeed Ó Ceallaigh as Tánaiste and Minister for Finance respectively. July 31, 1945: The Department of Supplies is abolished with all functions transferred to the Department of Industry & Commerce. Janua ...

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Eamon de Valera - Changes. December 29, 1937: Following the introduction of Bunreacht na hÉireann the following changes take place: the title of President of the Executive Council changes to Taoiseach, the title Vice-President of the Executive Council changes to Tánaiste and the title Executive Council changes to Government. ...

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