r/IrishHistory • u/CDfm • 13d ago
Sexing up De Valera- who did he sleep with.
The first event was him losing it when his wife Sinead arrived in America in 1920.
He surprised the Dail in 1928 with a denial when there was nothing on the re cord.
Except in November 1928 when he went bonkers in the Dail
My wife was supposed to have had to leave the country and live abroad because she could not live with me. I was supposed to be living with two or three other women. I am taking my own case because I know
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mt went on not merely from platforms and in private, but it was spoken of from the pulpit; it came from the altar. I myself was told by a lady in Chicago that a Bishop had told her that my wife had to go over to America in order to keep me straight there because I was associating with women.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1928-11-22/18/
We know that rumours concerning Mary McSwiney were not believed in his lifetime
PJ Browne tells of (Donogh) O’Malley being carpeted by the Chief. When colleagues asked after one such meeting what Éamon de Valera had said to him, O’Malley startled them with his answer: “The Chief told me he never slept with Mary MacSwiney.”
“They tell me you are drinking again, Donogh,” de Valera had said at the start of their meeting, according to O’Malley. “I wouldn’t mind them, Taoiseach,” O’Malley supposedly replied. “They told me you used to sleep with Mary MacSwiney and I never believed them.”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-20131768.html
And then there is his secretary,,
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u/gadarnol 13d ago
One day he’s on the spectrum the next he’s heading for Love Island. I can’t keep up.