Juan Vivion de Valera

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Juan Vivion de Valera was the man Eamon de Valera maintained was his father. According to Eamon's account, Juan Vivion was a Spaniard who emigrated to America. There, he met Eamon's mother Kate Coll, who had immigrated from Knockmore in County Limerick, and married her in 1881, a year before Eamon's birth. Juan Vivion died in 1885 leaving his widow and child in poor circumstances [1]

Biographers of Eamon de Valera have failed to find any church or state record of the marriage. Furthermore, no birth, baptismal or death certificate has ever been found for an individual named Juan Vivion de Valera (or the alternative spelling de Valeros), leading modern scholars, including Eamon's biographer Tim Pat Coogan, to conclude that Kate Coll actually bore her son out of wedlock. Eamon then invented Juan Vivion de Valera to disguise his illegitimate birth.

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  1. ^ Proinsias Mac Aonghusa Quotations from Eamon de Valera page 89 (1983) ISBN 0-85342-684-8.


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