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31st March 1939: First Taoiseach of Eire Eamon de Valera (1882 - 1975) arrives with his wife, Gaelic fairy story writer Sinead Ni Flannagain, at Arus An Uacharain, Phoenix Park, Dublin, for a schoolchildren's garden party given by Irish President Doctor Douglas Hyde. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)