The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern launches 'Judging Dev' a new book about Eamon de Valera by Diarmaid Ferriter at the Royal Irish Academy.

The report shows the Taoiseach speaking, and Cathal Goan and Diarmaid Ferriter seated. Pádraig Ó Buachalla of the Royal Irish Academy explains how the book portrays a different image of Eamon de Valera.

A computer screen is showing a page from the RTÉ Libraries and Archives website about radio and television coverage of the career of Eamon de Valera.

A RTÉ News report on the launch of the book 'Judging Dev'. In conjunction with the book publication RTÉ broadcast a radio series of the same name and the RTÉ Libraries and Archives website hosted an exhibition of radio and television clips looking at the career of Eamon de Valera.

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