De Valera, Volume 1

From the host of RT sPrimetime 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 F il 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. Best Read [ De Valera, Volume 1 ] by [ David McCullagh ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Where De Valera is concerned,I try to read with an open mind.This first volume of a new biography of the man known as The Long Fellow ,tries to be objective,and for the most part succeeds.But I feel it gives short shift to the murder of Michael Collins and De Valera s home life.The author makes it sound as if his wife had seven children with no hel...

• English
• 13 March 2018
David McCullagh
• Hardcover
• 480 pages
• 0717155862
• David McCullagh
• De Valera, Volume 1