Éamon de Valera
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Éamon de Valera

A Will to Power

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eBook - ePub

Éamon de Valera

A Will to Power

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Éamon de Valera by Ronan Fanning in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Historical Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780571312078
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Map: Éamon de Valera’s Homes in Blackrock
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1: From Bruree to Blackrock
  11. 2: The Greening of Edward de Valera
  12. 3: Éamon de Valera and the 1916 Rising
  13. 4: The Assumption of Power, 1916–19
  14. 5: Mission to America, 1919–20
  15. 6: 1921: War and Peace
  16. 7: Catastrophe
  17. 8: A Glass Wall
  18. 9: The Path Back to Power
  19. 10: The Attainment of Independence, 1932–8
  20. 11: Independence Affirmed: Neutrality  in World War II
  21. 12: De Valera’s Ireland
  22. 13: Marking Time, 1948–59
  23. 14: Last Laps, 1959–75
  24. Conclusion
  25. Select Bibliography
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Index
  28. Photographs
  29. About the Author
  30. By the Same Author
  31. Copyright