Why is there no Roads or buildings named after Éamon de Valera

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

Cos he ****ed us over when he handed the country on a plate to the church.

Great to see there were now no RCC run schools, homes, hospitals or anything else in the glory days of British colonial rule (given to the RCC by the British in exchange for the RCC condemning Irish republicans and ramming the coloniser's language and culture down the throats of the backward natives). It was, it now appears, Dev who first "handed them on a plate" to the RCC in 1932.

threeball

threeball wrote: »

Very generous of them to overlook him sending his condolences upon Hitlers death.

Not as generous as they are to overlook 6 years of Britain's collaboration with Nazi Germany (1933-1939), a collaboration which continued after the Nuremberg Laws, Kristalnacht and much else and is known in Britain by the euphemism "appeasement". But then again in Britain in the 1930s the Nazis were the good guys, unlike the godless communists.

Esel

Arghus wrote: »

I guess if you get to run the place for years you don't need the token gesture of having a few roundabouts named,after you.

How about we rename the U-turn?

"I saw the checkpoint ahead and did a quick Dev."

Esel

maryishere wrote: »

He was unpopular with some people all right, he had little sympathy for the IRA and actually killed ( hung ) some IRA in Irish jail and a few more died on hunger strike in Irish jail.

Yeah, he pulled a Dev on them.

JupiterKid

JupiterKid wrote: »

This has been discussed on boards before and it seems that the main reason was Dev's longevity. He died in 1975 aged 92 and by then the fashion for naming places and streets after patriots had largely ended.

Yep, that's pretty much it.

In much the same way, I suspect O'Connell got a few more main streets than most. He died at the right time, long before the wave of replacing English names with those relevant to Ireland...

Annasopra

There is a good few

De Valera Street Youghal
De Valera Park Sligo
De Valera Place Dublin
De Valera Museum limerick
De Valera Library Clare
De Valera Park - Meath, Limerick

Theres also roads in India, Ohio and South Africa