File 1 - Éamon de Valera

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IE CA CP/1/1/4/1

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Éamon de Valera

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  • c.1930-1975 (Creation)

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71 items; 21.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 16 cm x 11.5 cm; 15.5 cm x 13.5 cm; Black and white prints

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Photographic prints of Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes the following images:

• De Valera at All Hallows College, Dublin, with Dr. Arthur W. Conway (1875-1950), President of University College Dublin, Cardinal Norman Thomas Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and President Seán T. O’Kelly.
• De Valera at Kilmainham Jail with Frank Aiken.
• De Valera at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, with J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia.
• De Valera arriving at 10 Downing Street, with Seán McEntee and John Dulanty (1883-1955), Irish High Commissioner in London. 17 Jan. 1938.
• De Valera’s visit to the Vatican in March 1962. He was accompanied by Sinéad Bean de Valera, and Frank Aiken, Minister for External Affairs. Includes photographs of his audience with Pope John XXIII and other representatives of the Holy See. 29 prints.
• De Valera’s visit to the United States and Canada in 1964. He was accompanied by Sinéad Bean de Valera, and Frank Aiken, Minister for External Affairs. Includes photographs of de Valera with the Most Rev. Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, Archbishop Sebastian Baggio, Apostolic Delegate to Canada, Georges Vanier, Governor-General of Canada, Robert F. Wagner, Mayor of New York. 30 prints.
• De Valera at the official opening of John F. Kennedy Memorial Park, Slieve Coillte, New Ross, County Wexford (28 May 1968). 2 prints.
• De Valera’s state funeral (2 Sept. 1975). Includes photographs of the funeral procession along O’Connell Street, the service at the Pro-Cathedral, and the internment at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. 19 prints.

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Note: The images are mostly press prints from the 'Irish Press', the Central Press Agency, London, the 'Cork Examiner' and the 'Irish Independent'.

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