Éamon de Valera : : A Will to Power /

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

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 o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Fanning, Ronan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 20 halftones
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Table of 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

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