It’s all about 1975 for this week’s Throwback Thursday! Ciara Treacy from Newstalk’s Digital Team joins Andrea to discuss the biggest things that happened that year… ...
His father later wrote to President Éamon de Valera expressing his gratitude for the welcome he received, especially in Co Wexford. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive The father of the late US ...
Decision by then taoiseach to visit German Legation led to government being swamped with angry letters Éamon de Valera’s condolences over Adolf Hitler’s death sparked outrage as government ...
Taoiseach Éamon de Valera’s visit to the German legation on the death of Adolf Hitler caused shock and bewilderment in Irish America. Nothing de Valera did in his long career attracted the same ...
The father of president John F Kennedy wrote to president Éamon de Valera telling him that his son’s four days in Ireland were among the happiest of his life. President Kennedy visited Ireland ...
John F Kennedy with Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass at the US embassy in Dublin during the president’s visit to Ireland in 1963. Photo: Getty Joe Kennedy told president Éamon de Valera that ...
The book ran into trouble shortly after its publication, eventually leading to Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie and his publishers. Rushdie spent ...
The book ran into trouble shortly after its publication, eventually leading to Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie and his publishers. Rushdie spent ...
Delhi HC dismisses case over alleged ban on Salman Rushdie’s 'The Satanic Verses' The book ran into trouble shortly after its publication, eventually leading to Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini ...
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“We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared, in 1980, after ousting the last of several Iranian monarchies that had endured for two millennia.