Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish republic ... Another thing that “caught” that audience was the speech of Henry J. Boland, secretary to De Valera - another of the young men or the ...

But the South can thrill to the story of the oppressed and at every stop Eamon de Valera ... While tailoring his speeches to specific local conditions, de Valera tried to counteract these trends ...

News about murders of citizens, the burning of towns and daily outrages also increased the intensity of de Valera’s speeches and the fund raising but he was not arrested. When questioned about ...

Éamon de Valera’s well-known visionary speech of 1943, with its references to “cosy homesteads”, “the romping of sturdy children” and “the laughter of comely maidens”, envisaged ...