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.

© UCD Archives 2005

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 by-election,

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, 1921-75

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,

during the Eucharistic Congress, 1932

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 New Delhi, June 1948

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