Eamon De Valera by The Earl of Longford and Thomas P. O'Neill (GT571)

Published 1970: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 499 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges, previous owners dedication on the first free page. Boards slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. The dust jacket is shabby and rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact.(GT571)

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This is undoubtedly a major biography. Lord Longford and Mr. O'Neill have had every help from de Valera himself, not only in making his voluminous private papers available but in allowing himself to be cross-examined at length on many episodes...This biography is of immense interest to all students of Irish history.
Robert Blake, Sunday Times

It is a remarkable achievement to have brought 60 years of political activity within the compass of a single volume...the authors have made vital contributions to historical knowledge from the Easter Rising though the anxious period of the inter-war years to the relative tranquillity of de Valera's old age.
A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman

The most impressive biography of de Valera yet to appear.
Robert Kee, Observer

Destined to remain the standard work on its subject in the English language for our generation at least.
Tomas O Fiach, Irish Press

Many books were published on De Valera during his long lifetime ( and subsequent to it) - this was perhaps as close to an 'authorised biography' as exists - written when De Valera was at the end of his political career. [Google Books]