Éamon de Valera
Title | Éamon de Valera PDF eBook |
Author | Ronan Fanning |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2015-10-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0571312071 |
Éamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence. From his emergence in the aftermath of the 1916 rebellion as the republican leader, he bestrode Irish politics like a colossus for over fifty years. On the eve of the centenary of the Irish revolution, one of Ireland's most eminent historians explains why Eamon de Valera was such a divisive figure that he has never until now received the recognition he deserves. This biography reconciles an acknowledgement of de Valera's catastrophic failure in 1921-22, when his petulant rejection of the Anglo-Irish Treaty shaped the dimensions of a bloody civil war, with an appreciation of his subsequent greatness as the statesman who single-handedly severed the ties with Britain and defined nationalist Ireland's sense of itself.
Judging Dev
Title | Judging Dev PDF eBook |
Author | Diarmaid Ferriter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Eamon de Valera has often been characterised as a stern, un-bending, devious and divisive Irish politician. Diarmuid Ferriter challenges this caricature using letters, documents and photographs. This book chronicles the extraordinary career of the most significant politician of modern Irish history.
Eamon de Valera
Title | Eamon de Valera PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Pat Coogan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Ireland |
ISBN | 9780760712511 |
Ireland Standing Firm
Title | Ireland Standing Firm PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Brennan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a republican activist in the early years of the twentieth century, journalist and close associate of Eamon de Valera. "Ireland Standing Firm" is a frank and pungent account of Robert Brennan's time as Irish Minister (in effect Irish Ambassador) in Washington immediately before and during the World War II. Brennan provides an account of his efforts in defending Irish neutrality and his meetings with leading American officials and politicians, including Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the second memoir, Brennan describes his close association with Eamon de Valera from their first meeting in prison in 1917 until de Valera's retirement as Taoiseach in 1959.
India and Ireland
Title | India and Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Éamon De Valera |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Eamon de Valera
Title | Eamon de Valera PDF eBook |
Author | Ronan Fanning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2016-05-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780571312061 |
De Valera
Title | De Valera PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Pat Coogan |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 802 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Ireland |
ISBN | 0099958600 |
This book looks at the life of Eamon De Valera, who has both defined and divided Ireland. He was directly responsible for the Irish Constitution, Fianna Fail and the Irish Press Group. Many of the challenges he confronted still trouble Ireland today.