Proper noun
Valera (plural Valeras)
A surname from Spanish.
On more than one occasion when reading Epifanio de los Santos, one reads Don Juan Valera. Epifanio de los Santos
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. Source: Internet
Barton, ibid., pp. 91–94 The Kilmainham Gaol cell of Éamon de Valera. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
Biographies are also available of de Valera, Lemass, Lynch, Cosgrave, FitzGerald, Haughey, Reynolds and Ahern. Source: Internet