Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power review – the man who made modern Ireland | Books | The Guardian
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When Winston Churchill attacked Irish taoiseach Éamon de Valera 60 years ago at the end of the second world war for what he regarded as southern Ireland’s shameful neutrality, De Valera responded in a dignified and firm way. Irish neutrality was the logical culmination of De Valera’s mission to achieve Irish sovereignty, and as far as he was concerned the capacity to implement an independent foreign policy was the ultimate measure of that sovereignty. That he had managed to guide southern Ireland to that point was testament to his political success, nearly 20 years after Churchill, as secretary of state for the colonies, had suggested De Valera “may gradually come to personify not a cause but a catastrophe”.
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