ÉAMON DE VALERA, THE IRISH DIASPORA AND WARTIME HATE MAIL
By Tim Ellis-Dale On 2 May 1945 the streets of Monkstown, Co. Dublin, bore witness to the spectacle of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera entering Gortleitragh, a comfortable, if not overly grandiose, Victorian villa. From 1932 to 1936 it had been the residence of Domhnall Ua Buachalla, the last governor-general of the Irish Free State, but … Read more