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de Valera Public Library

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de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
de Valera Public Library
Phone:
+353 65 684 6353

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday10am - 8pm
Wednesday10am - 5:30pm
Thursday10am - 5:30pm
Friday10am - 8pm
Saturday10am - 2pm


Éamon de Valera was a prominent statesman and political leader in 20th-century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served several terms as head of government and head of state. He also led the introduction of the Constitution of Ireland.De Valera was a Commandant in the 1916 Easter Rising, a political leader in the War of Independence and of the anti-Treaty opposition in the ensuing Irish Civil War . After leaving Sinn Féin in 1926 due to its policy of abstentionism, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland. His political creed evolved from militant republicanism to social and cultural conservatism.Assessments of de Valera's career have varied; he has often been characterised as a stern, unbending, devious, and divisive Irish politician. Biographer Tim Pat Coogan sees his time in power as being characterised by economic and cultural stagnation, while Diarmaid Ferriter argues that the stereotype of de Valera as an austere, cold and even backward figure was largely manufactured in the 1960s and is misguided.
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