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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Locations in the Easter Rising, People of the Easter Rising, Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Nevil Shute, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, O'Connell Street, Mountjoy Square, Frank Newsam, Constance Markiewicz, Augustine Birrell, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Charles Blackader, Ryan's Daughter, Martin Savage, John Kenny, St Stephen's Green, Matthew Nathan, Francis Vane, Liam Mellows, Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, The O'Rahilly, Easter, 1916, First Day of the Easter Rising, W. H. M. Lowe, Gearoid O'Sullivan, Margaret Skinnider, Thomas Hunter, John Maxwell, Thomas Ashe, Pierce McCan, Hibernian Rifles, Liam Tobin, Aud, Padraig O Fathaigh, Irish Brigade, George Onions, James Nowlan, Tara Street, Francis Browning, Arthur Shields, Tommy Furey, Moore Street, The Soldier's Song, Frongoch internment camp, Patrick Hogan, Charles Carrigan, Joe Howley, Henry Feeney, Larry Lardner, Peter Greene, Marrowbone Lane, Boland's Mill, Tomas Bairead, Eden Quay. Excerpt: Eamon de Valera (; 14 October 1882 - 29 August 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government and head of state and introducing the Constitution of Ireland. De Valera was a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in the Irish War of Independence and of the anti-Treaty forces in the ensuing Irish Civil War (1922-23). In 1926, he founded Fianna Fail and was head of government from 1932-48, 1951-54 and 1957-59 and President of Ireland 1959-73. De Valera was born in New York City in 1882 to an Irish mother; his parents, Catherine Coll (subsequently Mrs Wheelwright), an immigrant from Bruree, County Limerick, and Juan Vivion de Valera, a Cuban settler and sculptor of Spanish descent, were reportedly married on 18 September 1881 at St. Patrick's Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. However, archivists ...
