Why did Eamon de Valera leave office as president in 1973?

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Eamon de Valera did not leave office in 1973 due to a specific political defeat or controversy; rather, he retired at the end of his second term as president of Ireland.12

Having been elected to the presidency in 1959 and reelected in 1966, de Valera reached the end of his tenure in 1973. At that time, he was in his 90th year and in declining health, leading him to retire to a nursing home near Dublin, where he passed away in 1975.12