De Valera: Rule
1932-1975
Published on 26. October 2018
400 pages
978-0-7171-8406-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this, the concluding volume of David McCullagh's monumental new life of the revolutionary and statesman, we join De Valera in 1932 as he takes the reins of power in the first Fianna Fáil government, and follow him as he confronts one challenge after another - the Economic War, the drafting of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Emergency, the North, the declaration of the Republic, economic stagnation in the 1950s - and sets about gradually remaking a sovereign Ireland in his own image. Beautifully written and deeply researched, McCullagh's De Valera is a provocative and nuanced portrait of Ireland's most enigmatic leader, as well as a balanced assessment of his role in shaping our national self-image.
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De Valera: Rule (1932-1975)
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David McCullagh is the author of The Reluctant Taoiseach, his acclaimed biography of John A. Costello, and A Makeshift Majority, a history of the first inter-party government. He began working as a journalist with the Evening Press before joining RTE, where he currently presents the broadcaster's flagship current affairs programme, Prime Time. The first part of this work, entitled De Valera: Rise (1882-1932), was published by Gill Books in 2017.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: 'We'll crown de Valera King of Ireland
- Chapter 2: Work without ceasing
- Chapter 3: No going back
- Chapter 4: Our duty to govern
- Chapter 5: A Republic in fact
- Chapter 6: A feeling of bitter humiliation
- Chapter 7: A very serious handicap
- Chapter 8: You have a Constitution now
- Chapter 9: A positive advance
- Chapter 10: Gazing over the brink
- Chapter 11: Nothing to fear
- Chapter 12: Whoever comes first
- Chapter 13: A nation once again
- Chapter 14: Our answer will be no
- Chapter 15: So many irons
- Chapter 16: Such a change
- Chapter 17: I hate to be a lame duck
- Chapter 18: As long as this organisation wants me
- Chapter 19: First and last
- Chapter 20: I do not know of any art
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Photo Section
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About Gill Books
