Valera
Proper noun
Meaning
Valera (plural Valeras)
A surname from Spanish.
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Examples
On more than one occasion when reading Epifanio de los Santos, one reads Don Juan Valera.
After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, de Valera rose through the ranks and it was not long before he was elected captain of the Donnybrook company.
Barton, ibid., pp. 91–94 The Kilmainham Gaol cell of Éamon de Valera.
As the conflict petered out into a de facto victory for the pro-treaty side, de Valera asked the IRA leadership to call a ceasefire, but they refused.
At the general election of 1957, de Valera, then in his seventy-fifth year, won an absolute majority of nine seats, the greatest number he had ever secured.
Biographies are also available of de Valera, Lemass, Lynch, Cosgrave, FitzGerald, Haughey, Reynolds and Ahern.