Eamon de Valera at a rally, around 1920
The Irish Republican and later President Eamon de Valera during a protest event in Dublin. He founded in 1926, mainly from Sinn Fein members of the party Fianna Fail, whose chairman he became. In 1932, his party became the strongest force in the Irish Parliament and De Valera was appointed the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach). One of the first acts of the new government was the abolition of the Anglo-Irish Treaty's oath of the Irish Members of Parliament (Teachtai Dala) to the British crown. The Office of the Taoiseach, he had held continuously until 1948 and then again twice (1951-1954 and 1957-1959). From 1959 to 1973 De Valera was Irish President
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Mary Evans / Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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