Eamon de Valera - Introduction by Diarmaid Ferriter

During his exhausting 18-month tour of the United States between 1919 and 1920, and the relentless political campaigning of the early 1920s, Eamon de Valera must have occasionally wondered if there was an easier way to reach the masses than by constant travel and countless mass meetings. The following decade, he discovered that there was indeed an easier way of getting his political and cultural messages to a large audience, which involved sitting in front of a microphone in a radio studio in Dublin and reading carefully prepared scripts...

Diarmaid Ferriter

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