Part 44 - Éamon de Valera addresses a large crowd on O’Connell Street

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of a photograph of Éamon de Valera addressing a large anti-Treaty rally on O’Connell Street (Sackville Street) in Dublin. The original caption refers to de Valera as the ‘former President of the Irish Republic’ and notes that there was a ‘vast crowd but little enthusiasm’. The clipping is taken from the ‘New York Times’ (5 March 1922). The image is credited to Times World Wide Photos.

A British Pathé newsreel clip of Éamon de Valera speaking at this event can be viewed at https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/the-irreconcilable-mr-de-valera/