Thom's Irish Who's Who/de Valera, Eamon

DE VALERA, Eamon (T.D. for E. Clare, 1917; elected for E. Mayo, 1918, and for Clare Co. in Parliament of S. Ireland, 1921, and for Down Co. in N. Parliament, Ireland, 1921); B.A., B.Sc. (N.U.I.). Educ.: Christian Brothers' School, Charleville, and Blackrock College; taught Mathematics at Rockwell, at Maynooth, at University College, Dublin, Dominican College, Eccles Street, Dublin, at Loreto College, and elsewhere; Commandant of Irish Volunteers in Ringsend-Mount Street area during Easter Week rising, 1916; was the last of the Republican commandants to surrender; sentence of death commuted to penal servitude for life; released 1917. President of Dail Eireann, 1918-22; escaped from Lincoln Gaol, 1919; Vice-President of Gaelic League since 1917; Chancellor of the N.U.I, since 1921; son of Vivian de Valera and Kate Coll, of Bruree, Co. Limerick; b. New York, 1889; m. 1910, Miss S. O'Flanagan. Res.; Greystones.