Área de identidad
Código de referencia
IE LMOD 643
Título
1947 Éamon de Valera with Dr. Alan Thompson and Dr. Bethal Solomons
Fecha(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
Photographic paper, ink. 28.5 x 32.5 cm
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Historia archivística
24/08/2011
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
A black and white photograph of Éamon de Valera being greeted by Dr. Bethal Solomons with Dr. Alan Thompson in the background. The frame is captioned with the year and people photographed.
A rare photograph of then-Taoiseach Éamon de Valera smiling. De Valera is being greeted by Dr. Bethal Solomons at the Rotunda Bicentenary Congress. Dr. Solomons was “a world famous obstetrician and gynaecologist, rugby international, horseman, leader of liberal Jewry and of Irish literary and artistic renaissance.” Master of the Rotunda Hospital, he won ten caps on the Irish rugby team, was the first president of the Liberal Synagogue in Dublin, and was even mentioned in Finnegans Wake.
