Eamon de Valera and the league of Nations
Eamonn de Valera was born in New York 14 October 1882. He was the son of a Spanish father and an Irish mother. His father died when he was only two years of age, which signalled his return to Ireland. He was educated at an array of schools and eventually graduated form the Royal University with an Arts Degree. He became a maths teacher, a subject to which he would retain a life long interest. It was around this period that de Valera’s career moved from being an enthusiastic intellectual to that of a dynamic revolutionary. De Valera joined the Gaelic League in 1908 where he developed a love for the Irish language. He married his Irish teacher Sinead Flanagan, whom was 4 years older than him, in 1910. He gained his inspiration for republican separatism from his association with the league. De Valera joined the I.V.F when it was established in 1913, and became a member of the I.R.B in 1915. During Easter week 1916, de Valera was stationed at Boland’s Mills with the third battalion of Volunteers. He was responsible for what was perhaps the most spectacular achievement of the week, the battle of Mount Street Bridge. In the aftermath of the Rising de Valera’s death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Some argue
The period between 1921-1924 was to be an eventful period in the life of Eamon de Valera. From here on his interests shifted significantly from international recognition to more serious domestic issues. Within this timescale the war of independence was fought against the British forces, which ended in a truce when the British Prime Minister Lloyd George called for discussions between the two sides. This resulted in the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment of Saor Stat (Free-State) Eireann. De Valera refused to accept this treaty and resigned as President of the Dail. This eventually led to the outbreak of a civil war where he joined the forces of the anti-treaty side. He was eventually arrested in August 1923 and remained in prison till April 1924. Following his release from prison he questioned Sinn Fein’s abstentionist policy (because of the Oath to the British Monarchy) that left them in the political wilderness. This caused a split in Sinn Fein and de Valera eventually founded Fianna Fail in 1926. In the 1932 general election Fianna Fail won 72 seats and with the help of Labour and Independents de Valera formed his first Fianna Fail government.
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