Eamon de Valera, who was one of the most influential leaders of the Irish War of Independence together with Michael Collins, served as president for 3 terms.
He worked for the independence of Ireland and served as president from 1959 to 1973.
There is a strange phenomenon that accompanies state leaders at the turn of this century.
Most of these leaders were born in different countries.
Éamon de Valera (14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of government and head of state and had a leading role in introducing the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.
Hitler was born in Austria, Stalin in Georgia, Atatürk in Greece, and Eamon de Valera, who made modern Ireland independent, was born in New York, three thousand miles from Dublin.
Moreover, Eamon de Valera's father was not Irish. He was a Spanish immigrant from Cuba. His mother was a poor immigrant from Ireland.
Eamon de Valera was also born in the USA in 1882. This circumstance saved him from execution during the famous Easter Revolution of 1916. The British who ruled Ireland did not want to anger the US people.
The Irish knew their first president by the name 'Giant'. The Americans also use Theodore Roosevelt as 'Teddy'.
Roosevelt used to state that this name was one of the biggest reasons people fell in love with him.
The founder of the Republic of Ireland was a man without hobbies.
He spent his time reading and studying William Shakespeare.
De Valera, also known for his academic work, was a mathematician. However, he learned the mother tongue of his country at a later age.
De Valera always led a modest life and taught all seven of his children this virtue.
Like Atatürk, Eamon de Valera was an orphan.
Likewise, his mother remarried after his father's death.
He grew up with his uncle during his stay in the USA.
De Valera was elected president of Ireland in 1959. That is, 10 years after Ireland gained its independence.
He retired in 1973 at the age of 90 and passed away in 1975 at the age of 92.
Although the Southern Ireland problem was solved in the time of Eamon de Valera, a solution to the Northern Ireland tragedy has not been found yet.
Those who were aggrieved in the south took their places among the oppressors in the north. Those who claimed the rights of the majority in the south did not accept the rights of the majority in the north.
Northern Ireland needs brave men working for the people today, not warriors burning fire in the dark.
ARCHITECT OF THE IRISH CIVIL WAR
When Free Ireland was first established, it opposed the northern region's dependence on the United Kingdom and therefore engaged in a violent civil war with the peacekeepers. Da Valera is known as the name that started the civil war in which Collins lost his life.