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Emer was the 2nd youngest of 7 children of Sinéad (Ni Fhlannagáin) & Éamon de Valera. At the time she was born her father, a Freedom Fighter, was a Prisoner of War interred at Lincoln prison camp located in the enemy's homeland. He escaped from the enemy death camp using a wax made key and, having made his way home to Ireland, finally saw Emer for the first time when she was 6 months old.
Of her name she said "I had 3, which was considered a lot: Íde for my father's county of Limerick, Emer because my mother loved it as a name, and Clare because I was born in 1918 after the County by-election" [in which her father was elected to the revolutionary Dáil Éireann].
Her early education was by the Sisters at Loretto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin. She continued her education at University College Dublin, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts in Celtic studies.
In April 1941 she married renowned Irish language expert, Professor Brian Ó Cuív, and together they had nine children; Nóra born 1942, Máire b. 1943, Caitríona b. 1945, Vivian b. 1946, Shán b. 1948, Éamon b. 1950, Brian b. 1952, Ruairí b. 1957 and Eón b. 1959.
Their children spoke Irish at home and school and were raised in an Irish speaking region of Ireland.
In 2012, an end of an era was marked in Ireland when Emer, the last surviving child of former Taoiseach, Uachtarán and Revolutionary Éamon de Valera, passed away at age 93. She was surrounded at her bedside by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A veritable who's who of Irish politics past and present attended her overflowing Requiem Mass at St. Mary's Haddington Road in Ringsend. The chief celebrant at the Mass was Emer's son Fr. Shán Ó Cuív. He spoke of his mother being back in the same church where she had made her First Holy Communion and prayed so regularly.
Reflecting Emer and her family's passion for Ireland's true language and pride in it's culture, the Mass was celebrated in Irish, as was her death notice printed in the Irish Times:
Í Chuív (de Valera) Emer (Baile Átha Cliath) céile ionúin Bhriain nach maireann - 9 Feabhra 2012 in Ospidéal Ollscoile Naomh Uinseann. Cúis mhór bhróin a bás dá clann Nóra, Máire (Ní Chuív Frederick), Caitríona, Vivian, Shán, Éamon, Brian, Ruairí agus Eón agus dá gcéilí agus do chlann a clainne, dá gaolta agus dá cairde ar fad. Sroichfidh an tsochraid Séipéal Mhuire, Bóthar Haddington, Baile Átha Cliath 4 ag 4.30i.n amárach (Dé Sathairn) 11 Feabhra. Aifreann na Marbh, Dé Luain 13 Feabhra ag 11 a.m. Adhlacfar í ina dhiaidh i Reilig Ghlas Naíon.
✞ Emer Clare Íde Chuív is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery. Buried with her is her an fear céile of 58 years, Ollamh Brian Ó Cuív.
Emer was the 2nd youngest of 7 children of Sinéad (Ni Fhlannagáin) & Éamon de Valera. At the time she was born her father, a Freedom Fighter, was a Prisoner of War interred at Lincoln prison camp located in the enemy's homeland. He escaped from the enemy death camp using a wax made key and, having made his way home to Ireland, finally saw Emer for the first time when she was 6 months old.
Of her name she said "I had 3, which was considered a lot: Íde for my father's county of Limerick, Emer because my mother loved it as a name, and Clare because I was born in 1918 after the County by-election" [in which her father was elected to the revolutionary Dáil Éireann].
Her early education was by the Sisters at Loretto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin. She continued her education at University College Dublin, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts in Celtic studies.
In April 1941 she married renowned Irish language expert, Professor Brian Ó Cuív, and together they had nine children; Nóra born 1942, Máire b. 1943, Caitríona b. 1945, Vivian b. 1946, Shán b. 1948, Éamon b. 1950, Brian b. 1952, Ruairí b. 1957 and Eón b. 1959.
Their children spoke Irish at home and school and were raised in an Irish speaking region of Ireland.
In 2012, an end of an era was marked in Ireland when Emer, the last surviving child of former Taoiseach, Uachtarán and Revolutionary Éamon de Valera, passed away at age 93. She was surrounded at her bedside by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A veritable who's who of Irish politics past and present attended her overflowing Requiem Mass at St. Mary's Haddington Road in Ringsend. The chief celebrant at the Mass was Emer's son Fr. Shán Ó Cuív. He spoke of his mother being back in the same church where she had made her First Holy Communion and prayed so regularly.
Reflecting Emer and her family's passion for Ireland's true language and pride in it's culture, the Mass was celebrated in Irish, as was her death notice printed in the Irish Times:
Í Chuív (de Valera) Emer (Baile Átha Cliath) céile ionúin Bhriain nach maireann - 9 Feabhra 2012 in Ospidéal Ollscoile Naomh Uinseann. Cúis mhór bhróin a bás dá clann Nóra, Máire (Ní Chuív Frederick), Caitríona, Vivian, Shán, Éamon, Brian, Ruairí agus Eón agus dá gcéilí agus do chlann a clainne, dá gaolta agus dá cairde ar fad. Sroichfidh an tsochraid Séipéal Mhuire, Bóthar Haddington, Baile Átha Cliath 4 ag 4.30i.n amárach (Dé Sathairn) 11 Feabhra. Aifreann na Marbh, Dé Luain 13 Feabhra ag 11 a.m. Adhlacfar í ina dhiaidh i Reilig Ghlas Naíon.
✞ Emer Clare Íde Chuív is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery. Buried with her is her an fear céile of 58 years, Ollamh Brian Ó Cuív.
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Emer was the 2nd youngest of 7 children of Sinéad (Ni Fhlannagáin) & Éamon de Valera. At the time she was born her father, a Freedom Fighter, was a Prisoner of War interred at Lincoln prison camp located in the enemy's homeland. He escaped from the enemy death camp using a wax made key and, having made his way home to Ireland, finally saw Emer for the first time when she was 6 months old.
Of her name she said "I had 3, which was considered a lot: Íde for my father's county of Limerick, Emer because my mother loved it as a name, and Clare because I was born in 1918 after the County by-election" [in which her father was elected to the revolutionary Dáil Éireann].
Her early education was by the Sisters at Loretto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin. She continued her education at University College Dublin, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts in Celtic studies.
In April 1941 she married renowned Irish language expert, Professor Brian Ó Cuív, and together they had nine children; Nóra born 1942, Máire b. 1943, Caitríona b. 1945, Vivian b. 1946, Shán b. 1948, Éamon b. 1950, Brian b. 1952, Ruairí b. 1957 and Eón b. 1959.
Their children spoke Irish at home and school and were raised in an Irish speaking region of Ireland.
In 2012, an end of an era was marked in Ireland when Emer, the last surviving child of former Taoiseach, Uachtarán and Revolutionary Éamon de Valera, passed away at age 93. She was surrounded at her bedside by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A veritable who's who of Irish politics past and present attended her overflowing Requiem Mass at St. Mary's Haddington Road in Ringsend. The chief celebrant at the Mass was Emer's son Fr. Shán Ó Cuív. He spoke of his mother being back in the same church where she had made her First Holy Communion and prayed so regularly.
Reflecting Emer and her family's passion for Ireland's true language and pride in it's culture, the Mass was celebrated in Irish, as was her death notice printed in the Irish Times:
Í Chuív (de Valera) Emer (Baile Átha Cliath) céile ionúin Bhriain nach maireann - 9 Feabhra 2012 in Ospidéal Ollscoile Naomh Uinseann. Cúis mhór bhróin a bás dá clann Nóra, Máire (Ní Chuív Frederick), Caitríona, Vivian, Shán, Éamon, Brian, Ruairí agus Eón agus dá gcéilí agus do chlann a clainne, dá gaolta agus dá cairde ar fad. Sroichfidh an tsochraid Séipéal Mhuire, Bóthar Haddington, Baile Átha Cliath 4 ag 4.30i.n amárach (Dé Sathairn) 11 Feabhra. Aifreann na Marbh, Dé Luain 13 Feabhra ag 11 a.m. Adhlacfar í ina dhiaidh i Reilig Ghlas Naíon.
✞ Emer Clare Íde Chuív is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery. Buried with her is her an fear céile of 58 years, Ollamh Brian Ó Cuív.
Emer was the 2nd youngest of 7 children of Sinéad (Ni Fhlannagáin) & Éamon de Valera. At the time she was born her father, a Freedom Fighter, was a Prisoner of War interred at Lincoln prison camp located in the enemy's homeland. He escaped from the enemy death camp using a wax made key and, having made his way home to Ireland, finally saw Emer for the first time when she was 6 months old.
Of her name she said "I had 3, which was considered a lot: Íde for my father's county of Limerick, Emer because my mother loved it as a name, and Clare because I was born in 1918 after the County by-election" [in which her father was elected to the revolutionary Dáil Éireann].
Her early education was by the Sisters at Loretto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin. She continued her education at University College Dublin, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts in Celtic studies.
In April 1941 she married renowned Irish language expert, Professor Brian Ó Cuív, and together they had nine children; Nóra born 1942, Máire b. 1943, Caitríona b. 1945, Vivian b. 1946, Shán b. 1948, Éamon b. 1950, Brian b. 1952, Ruairí b. 1957 and Eón b. 1959.
Their children spoke Irish at home and school and were raised in an Irish speaking region of Ireland.
In 2012, an end of an era was marked in Ireland when Emer, the last surviving child of former Taoiseach, Uachtarán and Revolutionary Éamon de Valera, passed away at age 93. She was surrounded at her bedside by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A veritable who's who of Irish politics past and present attended her overflowing Requiem Mass at St. Mary's Haddington Road in Ringsend. The chief celebrant at the Mass was Emer's son Fr. Shán Ó Cuív. He spoke of his mother being back in the same church where she had made her First Holy Communion and prayed so regularly.
Reflecting Emer and her family's passion for Ireland's true language and pride in it's culture, the Mass was celebrated in Irish, as was her death notice printed in the Irish Times:
Í Chuív (de Valera) Emer (Baile Átha Cliath) céile ionúin Bhriain nach maireann - 9 Feabhra 2012 in Ospidéal Ollscoile Naomh Uinseann. Cúis mhór bhróin a bás dá clann Nóra, Máire (Ní Chuív Frederick), Caitríona, Vivian, Shán, Éamon, Brian, Ruairí agus Eón agus dá gcéilí agus do chlann a clainne, dá gaolta agus dá cairde ar fad. Sroichfidh an tsochraid Séipéal Mhuire, Bóthar Haddington, Baile Átha Cliath 4 ag 4.30i.n amárach (Dé Sathairn) 11 Feabhra. Aifreann na Marbh, Dé Luain 13 Feabhra ag 11 a.m. Adhlacfar í ina dhiaidh i Reilig Ghlas Naíon.
✞ Emer Clare Íde Chuív is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery. Buried with her is her an fear céile of 58 years, Ollamh Brian Ó Cuív.
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