Your claims of "back when" implied he was always the president of Ireland. He was the provisional president, he quite just like the whining Confederate leaders, and his leaving and his facton's opposition caused the Irish Civil War (with the Brits backing NOT de Valera, but the Free State).
George Washington was President of the United States "back when." Does that imply he was always the president of the United States? Try again.
[NJ Neocon #549] He was the provisional president, he quite just like the whining Confederate leaders,
"Eamon De Valera (1882-1975), Irish republican leader, was Ireland's first prime minister (1937-48; also in 1951-54 and 1957-59) and its president (1959-73). He was born on October 14, 1882, in New York City, and educated at Royal University, Dublin. During his early life he was a student and teacher of mathematics in Ireland. He soon became well known as an activist for Irish independence. He led a group of Sinn Féin rebels during the uprising of Easter Week, 1916, and was sentenced to life imprisonment when the British quelled the revolt. He was released in the general amnesty of 1917. Later that year, when the Irish republican members of the British Parliament resigned to form their own government, he was elected president of the Sinn Féin party."
With the exceptions of 1949-50 and 1955-56, Eamonn de Valera was either Prime Minister or President of Ireland from 1937 to 1973.
[NJ Neocon #549] and his leaving and his facton's opposition caused the Irish Civil War (with the Brits backing NOT de Valera, but the Free State).
Why would Irish seeking independence from Britain care -what- the Brits backed? Adjust your King Billy pin.
The significant factor was not the backing of the partitioning by the Brits, but by the Protestant Unionists in Northern Ireland.
"The people of Northern Ireland, as the six counties in Ulster Province were known, ratified the legislation in May 1921 and elected a parliament. Although the rest of Ireland also elected a parliament in May, the Sinn Feiners, constituting an overwhelming majority outside of Ulster, refused to recognise the other provisions of the Home Rule Bill. The warfare against the British continued until July 10, 1921, when a truce was arranged."