Síle de Valera Dublin, where she qualified as a career guidance teacher. De Valera comes from a famous political family; she is the granddaughter of Éamon de Valera, the founder of Fianna Fáil, former Taoiseach and third President of Ireland. She is a niece of the former TD Vivion de Valera and is a first cousin of Teachta Dála Éamon Ó Cuív. De Valera was first returned to Dáil Éireann in the Fianna Fáil landslide victory at the 1977 general election. She was elected for the Dublin County Mid constituency, which included the Tallaght area of County Dublin, being the youngest TD elected
Irish Workers' Party (1926) Irish Workers' Party (1926) The Irish Workers' Party was a communist party in Ireland. It was founded in 1926 by former members of the Communist Party of Ireland and other communists. Among its members were Roddy Connolly (son of James Connolly), who served the party leader, Nora Connolly (daughter of James Connolly), Tom Lyng, the trade unionist P. T. Daly, Walter Carpenter Jnr, and Jack White. Many of the members had been active in Jim Larkin's Irish Worker League, and the party attempted to affiliate with the Communist International in place of the IWL. The party published "Irish Hammer and