{"slug": "eamon-de-valera", "label": "Éamon de Valera", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173347", "qid": "Q173347", "description": "Irish statesman (1882–1975)", "entries": 17, "years": 15, "span": [1882, 1975], "span_label": ["1882 CE", "1975 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "taoiseach", "label": "Taoiseach", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "republic-of-ireland", "label": "Republic of Ireland", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "president-of-ireland", "label": "President of Ireland", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "irish-free-state", "label": "Irish Free State", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belfast", "label": "Belfast", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "atlantic-ocean", "label": "Atlantic Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-air-force", "label": "Royal Air Force", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "neutral-country", "label": "Neutral country", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northern-ireland", "label": "Northern Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "winston-churchill", "label": "Winston Churchill", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#October", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Births › October"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 4", "text": "4 July – James Craig refuses to attend a peace conference in Dublin because the invitation by President Éamon de Valera was addressed to him personally instead of to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363471337#Events", "title": "1921 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1363471337, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera resigns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#January", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 28", "text": "28 May – The government releases two captured documents issued by the IRA on 24 May. The letters, signed by Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken call for the dumping of arms and the ending of armed struggle. The Civil War is officially over.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326804677#Events", "title": "1923 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1326804677, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1924, "year_label": "1924 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 24", "text": "24 October – Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362130993#Events", "title": "1924 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1362130993, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – Éamon de Valera organises the political party Fianna Fáil in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#March", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1929, "year_label": "1929 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 8", "text": "8 February – A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader Éamon de Valera to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341911749#Events", "title": "1929 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1341911749, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free State, by the Dáil (parliament).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#July", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 29", "text": "December 29 – The new Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes \"Ireland\", and Éamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938. The new constitution prohibits divorce.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#December", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 27", "text": "27 May – The new Churchill war ministry in London agrees to seek co-operation from Éamon de Valera and creation of an All-Ireland Council during \"the present emergency\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321973658#Events", "title": "1940 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1321973658, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 4", "text": "4 July – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera announces that the policy of neutrality adopted the previous September will not be reversed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321973658#Events", "title": "1940 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1321973658, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 21", "text": "21 February – First flight by a Royal Air Force flying boat through the \"Donegal Corridor\", neutral Republic of Ireland airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286174033#Events", "title": "1941 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1286174033, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes the speech \"The Ireland That We Dreamed Of\", commonly called the \"comely maidens\" speech, in Dublin Castle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#March", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 16", "text": "16 May – Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367526503#Events", "title": "1945 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1367526503, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government from 1918 to 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach by President Seán T. O'Kelly, until 1960.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#February", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 13", "text": "13 May – John A. Costello, Éamon de Valera, William Norton and Seán MacBride share a platform to protest the British government's attitude to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358290039#Events", "title": "1949 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1358290039, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (b. 1882)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369955775#August", "title": "1975", "revid": 1369955775, "section": "Deaths › August"}}]}