Eamon De Valera

Author : Ronan Fanning
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571312078

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Éamon de Valera by Ronan Fanning Pdf

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.

Author : Diarmaid Ferriter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131732187

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Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter Pdf

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.

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0760712514

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Eamon de Valera by Tim Pat Coogan Pdf

Author : Frank Pakenham Earl of Longford,Thomas P. O'Neill
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008801634

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Eamon de Valera by Frank Pakenham Earl of Longford,Thomas P. O'Neill Pdf

Author : David McCullagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0717155862

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De Valera Rise, 1882 1932 by David McCullagh Pdf

From the host of RTÉ's Primetime and author of The Reluctant Taoiseach, the widely acclaimed biography of John A. Costello, Rise 1882-1932 is the first volume of a major two-part reassessment of the man who shaped modern Ireland. Eamon de Valera is the most single most consequential Irish figure of the twentieth century. He was a leader of the Easter Rising, the figurehead of the anti-treaty rebels during the dark days of the Civil War and later, as the founder of Fianna Fáil and President of Ireland, the pivotal figure in the birth of the Republic. While de Valera the statesman, the rebel, the visionary, has passed over into a sort of myth, de Valera the man remains an elusive, almost opaque presence. Precious little is known of his background, his motivations - the roots, in short, of his ferocious devotion to a very particular brand of Irish nationalism. Here, in the first part of a major two-volume reassessment, historian and broadcaster David McCullagh considers the man behind the colossal achievements. McCullagh sketches a ground-breaking portrait of de Valera, his times and his complex, ever-shifting legacy. The concluding volume of this work, Rule 1932-1975, will be published in autumn 2018. 'De Valera can elicit hostility or, worse, gullibility in historians. McCullagh avoids these faults: dispassionate, comprehensive and the best exploitation yet of the voluminous de Valera archive.' John Bowman, historian and broadcaster. 'Combines the investigative skills of an experienced journalist with the detachment of an accomplished historian. This vividly readable and at times gripping biography tackles head-on all of the perennial de Valera controversies, including his parentage, his role in the 1916 Rising, his relationship with Michael Collins, his responsibility for the Civil War and his subsequent rise to power, and does so with acuity and objectivity. A comprehensive, mature biography, both enlightening and entertaining.' Maurice Manning

Author : M. J. Macmanus
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447495703

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Eamon de Valera by M. J. Macmanus Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : T. Ryle Dwyer
Publisher : Irish Book Center
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038939786

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Eamon de Valera by T. Ryle Dwyer Pdf

A biography of Eamon de Valera who dominated Irish life and politics for much of the 20th century. De Valera took part in the 1916 Rising and emerged as the country's leading revolutionary. His most controversial decision was to oppose the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9780099958604

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De Valera by Tim Pat Coogan Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Heads of state
ISBN : UVA:X000431016

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Eamon de Valera, 1882-1975 by Anonim Pdf

Author : David McCullagh
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780717155842

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De Valera Volume 1 by David McCullagh Pdf

Éamon de Valera was the single most consequential Irish figure of the twentieth century. He was a leader in the Easter Rising, the figurehead of the anti-Treaty rebels during the dark days of the Civil War and, later, as the founder of Fianna Fáil and president of Ireland, the pivotal figure in the birth of the Republic. In this, the first volume of a magisterial new biography, acclaimed historian and broadcaster David McCullagh charts De Valera's vertiginous rise from humble beginnings to electoral victory with Fianna Fáil in 1932. Riveting, nuanced, provocative and humorous, it draws on a wealth of new and neglected sources to present a truly ground-breaking portrait of de Valera the man, his times and his complex, ever-shifting legacy. 'David McCullagh combines the investigative skills of an experienced journalist with the detachment of an accomplished historian. In this vividly readable and at times gripping biography he tackles head-on all of the perennial de Valera controversies, including his parentage, his role in the 1916 Rising, his relationship with Michael Collins, his responsibility for the Civil War and his subsequent rise to power, and does so with acuity and objectivity. McCullagh's range and command of the source material is masterly ... a comprehensive, mature biography, both enlightening and entertaining.' MAURICE MANNING

Author : Robert Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043714727

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Ireland Standing Firm by Robert Brennan Pdf

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.

Author : Goddard Lieberson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Ireland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080801777

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The Irish Uprising, 1916-1922 by Goddard Lieberson Pdf

Pictorial history with texts by noted Irish writers and participants.

Author : Mark O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054255362

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De Valera, Fianna Fáil and the Irish Press by Mark O'Brien Pdf

The relationship between the Fianna F���¡il party and the Irish Press, both founded by Eamon de Valera in an era of political revolution, has been much misunderstood. Blamed for causing the bitter civil war and isolated in its aftermath by the political establishment, de Valera took what seemed the only course of action and founded his own political party and newspaper. In the aftermath of independence, nation building began with both Fianna F���¡il and Fine Gael competing to influence the process as much as possible. The Irish Press gave voice to de Valera's vision for Ireland and Irishness, and defended it from its detractors, namely the Fine Gael party, providing him with a means to counter hostility in the media, orchestrated particularly by the Irish Independent and the Irish Times. The author gives a fascinating view of the war of words between the two papers, their fight for rural readership and the role of Irish Press in bringing Fianna F���¡il to power. He explores the possibility of the Irish Press being de Valera, rather than, party-dominated and analyses the gradual disintegration of the relationship between the party and the paper as the de Valera family found itself gradually alienated from the paper's readers, a modernising Ireland and a changing Fianna F���¡il party.

Author : Sir Winston Churchill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204447

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Great Contemporaries [Revised Edition] by Sir Winston Churchill Pdf

This is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written and published by Winston Churchill before his first tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1940-1945. The original collection of 21 essays was published in 1937, mainly written between 1928 and 1931. This 1939 edition contains four additional essays on Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and Franklin D. Roosevelt. “THESE essays on Great Men of our age have been written by me at intervals during the last eight years. Although each is self-contained, they throw from various angles, a light upon the main course of the events through which we have lived. I hope they will be found to illustrate some of its less well-known aspects. Taken together they should present not only the actors but the scene. In their sequence they may perhaps be the stepping-stones of historical narrative. The central theme is of course the group of British statesmen who shone at the end of the last century and the beginning of this—Balfour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith and Curzon. All lived, worked and disputed for so many years together, knew each other well, and esteemed each other highly. It was my privilege as a far younger man to be admitted to their society and their kindness. Reading again these chapters has brought them back to me, and made me feel how much has changed in our political life. Perhaps this is but the illusion which comes upon us all as we grow older. Certainly we must all hope this may prove to be so. In the meantime those to whom these great men are but names—that is to say the vast majority of my readers—may perhaps be glad to gain from these notes some acquaintance with them.” “By far the most important, thoughtful edition of Churchill’s famous personality sketches ever published...The indispensable ‘desert island’ text for any marooned Churchillian.”—Finest Hour “Interesting, well written and worth reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : John J. Turi
Publisher : Stacey International Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1906768099

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England's Greatest Spy by John J. Turi Pdf

John J. Turi, in his book, England's Greatest Spy, presents startling new evidence to prove that the man who led Ireland throughout most of the 20th century was not a sainted national leader of high purpose and moral principle. Instead, he was an agent for England, subverting Irish aspirations while working diligently to promote English interests in Ireland and America. Rather than lionize de Valera, as a succession of Irish writers have done for more than half a century, Turi puts him in the dock and exposes the ways and means by which every major decision of the Irish President worked to the benefit of England with disastrous results for Ireland. In doing so, Turi sets Irish history on its head. He calls for a reexamination of almost the entire pantheon of 20th century Irish heroes and villains, saints and sinners. His work questions almost every article of faith in the Irish historical canon and answers questions that heretofore have gone unanswered. He challenges beliefs that have gone unchallenged. He poses daunting issues for traditionalist and revisionist alike. England's Greatest Spy is fascinating reading not only for Irish scholars but also for history and mystery buffs everywhere.