Eamon de valera biography book

Add to Basket. Date Published. All orders are sent via Royal Mail and are tracked: choose from standard or premium delivery. Critic Reviews. Lively and judicious. This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of modern Ireland. Ronan Fanning. More recently, he has been one of… Read More. Products search. Author: Colum Kenny.

Format: Paperback. Publication Date: 9 September Pages: Meath, Ireland. In addition to what we hold in stock, we pride ourselves on our ability to get any title in print for you most in a matter of days. On this website is a small selection of stock we currently have in store or can get. New stock is being added to the website daily. These two factors interacted to build the ultimately crippling policies of trying to keep people "on the land" instead of industrializing in any way or modernizing the economy to be more like those of the rest of Europe.

Partition was his hobbyhorse long after most people seemed to have resigned themselves to its continuation, and he used it justify not dealing with just about anything - how can we improve our economy while part of our country is still under a colonial power? Yet his economic and religious policies did nothing to make the south seem like a place where protestant northerners could actually live.

Ireland's economy and society is only now recovering from the eamon de valera biography book of his long rule. Coogan sums up, " Emigration, partition, the economy: even if we start by conceding that his freedom of manoeuvre in these areas was limited, his policies appear to have been framed not for substantive action, but for the eye of the beholder.

Rhetoric, rather than reality were the hallmarks of de Valera's style This quote from the period when the Anglo-Irish treaty was being debated was chilling: "The first fifteen years of my life that formed my character were lived amongst Irish people down in Limerick; therefore I know what I am talking about; when ever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted, I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted.

Luckily Ireland seems to be in the process of recovering. I thought Brexit would be the death knell, but it hasn't happened; it may yet. I'd say if you want to understand Ireland in the 20th century, you need to read this. A magisterial overview of the "Stalin of Ireland" and his legacy. I've deleted a star for its prohibitive length - it scares away the "easy read" crowd, and thus hurts its exposure - but for those who want the ins and outs of high politics in Ireland and Britain through the 20th century it's an indispensable guide, and all the better for its Irish view beyond the gates of Westminster.

Pelvis-deep in the muck of IRA blood-shenanigans and the civil war, de Valera popped right-side up of the grave smelling like a rose. Coogan, as long-time nationalist interpreter of his homeland, focuses strongly on de Valera's handling of WW II. Pressed for alliance commitment by Britain, Churchill was ready to seize Irish ports if de Valera deviated one inch from his professed neutrality.

The Germans, of course, would have loved to turn the island into a great-power catspaw - a "Ukraine" to drain British attention away from the continent. Failing that, they too demanded strict neutrality, or the promise of a devastating blitzkrieg that would've cost underdeveloped Ireland much more dearly than US-propped England. Modern readers will recoil in horror at his expression of condolences to the German legation at the time of Hitler's death.

But de Valera was a cunning, often devious "realpolitikician" who had long believed and practiced the division between personal morals and matters of state. Today, when all is about feel-good virtue-signaling, this kind of stark honesty is as as rare as it is heretical. Crushing his "Trotskyist" opposition in the IRA, making a non-aggression pact with Hitler, and the church "kremlin" a defacto state power, de Valera draped a shamrock curtain around Irish life.

Coogan's greatly-detailed account dissects it anatomically, for all those interested in exhaustive forensic political autopsy. Wes Pue. A very thorough book. Well written study of an important Irish leader. Despite the title this is anything but hagiography. Clayton Brannon. Much more than just a biography. A tour de force of Irish history and this controversial man.

Well worth reading. Jim Gallen. Slated for execution during the Easter Uprising ofDev was saved, possibly by his American birth, to become a leader of the opposition to the treaty that portioned Ireland and gave the southern 26 counties their independence. His tenure spanned depression, World War II, an uneasy post-war period during which Ireland exported its people from its chronically economically depressed island.

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