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Éamon de Valera
Irish statesman
Fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and founded Fianna Fáil; as head of government he wrote the strongly Catholic 1937 Constitution and kept Ireland neutral in the Second World War. He later served as president until 1973.
«A sovereign, Catholic, rural Ireland.»
In short
On the traditional scale, Éamon de Valera sits in the law-and-order right camp. The clearest positions are on society: strongly towards “tradition”; sovereignty: strongly towards “sovereignty”; religion: strongly towards “religion”; foreign policy: strongly towards “pacifism”. On economy, environment and democracy it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is postliberalism (92%).
Position on the 13 axes
Closest ideologies
PostliberalismThe Community Keeper92%SovereigntismThe Sentinel87%PeronismThe Descamisado83%Closest parties in Europe
Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija – Krikščioniškų šeimų sąjungaLithuania92%
AontúIreland92%
Elliniki LysiGreece91%
Smer – sociálna demokraciaSlovakia91%Similar figures
Positions are estimates based on documented ideas, platforms and actions, updated to October 2026.