Shortlisted for the 2015 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards - Nonfiction Book of the YearEamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified Brit
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in
Eamon 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 perso
Eamon de Valera embodies Irish independence much as de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Churchill exemplifies British resolve. Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the man who remains the mos