David Mccullagh: De Valera

Name: David Mccullagh: De Valera
Author: Mccullagh, David
ISBN: 9780717155866

by Mccullagh, David

ISBN: 9780717155866

Published: 2017

Biography & Autobiography

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...

Compare Prices

Chapters Bookstore

Out of Stock

Checked: 25 days ago

€23.99

+ €5.00 shipping (Free over €30)

€28.99

Visit Store
Liber Bookshop

In Stock

Checked: 15 hours ago

€24.95

+ €4.50 shipping (Free over €50)

€29.45

Visit Store
Books Upstairs

Out of Stock

Checked: 11 days ago

€24.99

+ €3.00 shipping

€27.99

Visit Store
Dubray Books

In Stock

Checked: 18 days ago

€34.99

+ €0.00 shipping (Free over €0)

€34.99

Visit Store
O'Mahonys

Unknown

Checked: 17 days ago

€34.99

+ €0.00 shipping (Free over €30)

€34.99

Visit Store
Books.ie

In Stock

Checked: 6 days ago

€34.99

+ €6.00 shipping

€40.99

Visit Store