Éamon de Valera : A Will to Power / Ronan Fanning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanning, Ronan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--Ireland--Biography.

Presidents.

Revolutionaries--Ireland--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.) : 20 halftones

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the most famous, and most divisive, political figure in modern Irish history, reconciling Éamon de Valera’s shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who embodied Irish independence and spared the nation decades of unproductive debate on the pros and cons of remaining tied to Britain.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Map: Éamon de Valera’s Homes in Blackrock

Introduction

1. From Bruree to Blackrock

2. The Greening of Edward de Valera

3. Éamon de Valera and the 1916 Rising

4. The Assumption of Power, 1916–19

5. Mission to America, 1919–20

6. 1921: War and Peace

7. Catastrophe

8. A Glass Wall

9. The Path Back to Power

10. The Attainment of Independence, 1932–8

11. Independence Affirmed: Neutrality in World War II

12. De Valera’s Ireland

13. Marking Time, 1948–59

14. Last Laps, 1959–75

Conclusion

References

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-97056-X

OCLC:

965378039