# Was Eamon de Valera a cuban -american?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 7, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066 "2007-01-07T18:01:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066/21 "2015-09-15T04:35:19Z")

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> [@ElTessy](#):
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> Only a DNA test can clear the discussion whether or not de Varela was half hispanic half irish!

There are genes unique to certain nationalities?

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066/22 "2015-09-15T07:27:40Z")

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> [@Claverhouse](#):
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> Protocol is what separates us from the hooligans.

And to be fair, rigid though he was, he eventually stuck to democracy and the rule of law throughout the 1930s, when so many Catholic nationalists across Europe were installing various forms of authoritarian government.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066/23 "2015-09-15T07:30:44Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> There are genes unique to certain nationalities?

There is this:

> **[Y-chromosomal Aaron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Aaron)**
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> Y-chromosomal Aaron is the name given to the hypothesized most recent common ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", also spelled "Cohen"). According to the traditional understanding of the Hebrew Bible, this ancestor was Aaron, the brother of Moses.
> While some early genetic studies were seen as possibly supporting the traditional biblical narrative, this view was subsequently challenged with some researchers arguing that the genetic evidence "refut...

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**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066/24 "2015-09-15T07:52:20Z")

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> [@PatrickLondon](#):
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> And to be fair, rigid though he was, he eventually stuck to democracy and the rule of law throughout the 1930s, when so many Catholic nationalists across Europe were installing various forms of authoritarian government.

Maybe he didn’t want to give O’Duffy a model… 😃

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eamon-de-valera-a-cuban-american/387066/25 "2015-09-15T08:32:06Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> The question is not where was he born, but “was his father of Hispanic origin”.

I think that the real question in this thread is "whence cometh the term ‘brought into life in the USA’ "? I think that my head will be spinning for a week or two.

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