De Valera San Fhásach

TG4

11:05 PM to 12:05 AM

Sunday 2 February

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Part two of two. Documentary about American-born Irish statesman and political leader Éamon de Valera, a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising. In perhaps, the greatest political U-turn in modern Irish history, De Valera secured a place for Fianna Fáil in the annals of history by accepting the Oath of Allegiance. The women who supported him found themselves in an Ireland, far removed from the vision of equality as laid out in the 1916 proclamation