Eamon de Valera,
1882 –1975
The de Valera
Papers contain
almost 2,500
photographs
documenting all
aspects of his long
and remarkable
career.
This is a small
selection of 34
images.
Eamon de Valera,
aged 12
At Blackrock
College, 1898
B.A. Royal
University,
October 1904
Eamon and Sinéad
de Valera on their
wedding day, 8
January 1910
In Richmond Barracks, 1916
Returning to Dublin after his release from
Pentonville, June 1917
Campaigning for W.T. Cosgrave, Kilkenny byelection, 1917
All-Ireland hurling final, Croke Park, April
1919
In Boston, June 1919, on his U.S. tour
With Harry Boland in New York City, 1919
Chief of the
Chippewa tribe,
October 1919
In New York City,
1920
At Holyhead, July 1921, en route to Downing
Street
With Arthur
Griffith in Dublin,
August 1921
Chancellor of the
National
University, 1921-75
Chancellor of the National University, 192175
At a National University honorary conferring
with Michael Tierney
Anti-treaty
election meeting,
Ennis,
August 1923
Prisoner in Arbour Hill, 1924
As Taoiseach, at 10 Downing Street, with Seán T.
O’Kelly, 10 June 1932
With John Charles McQuaid and Papal Nuncio
Paschal Robinson,
Eamon and Sinéad de Valera with Douglas Hyde,
first President of Ireland
On the Anti-Partition World Tour, Boston, March
1948
With Maureen O’Hara in Los Angeles, 17 March
1948
Arriving in Honolulu on the Anti-Partition World
Tour, 25 April 1948
With Prime Minister Nehru and Lady Mountbatten
in
With Winston
Churchill at 10
Downing Street,
1953
President de Valera outside Áras an Uachtaráin
President and Mrs de Valera with the Rainier
family, 1961
Meeting President
Lyndon Johnson,
May 1964
In the White House with President Johnson, May
1964
With Mrs Jacqueline
Kennedy in
Georgetown,
Washington, 28 May
1964
With General
Charles
de Gaulle, June
1969