We offer books on Travel & Exploration, Technology, Natural Sciences, Naval and Military History.

We offer books on Travel & Exploration, Technology, Natural Sciences, Naval and Military History.


West Coast Rare Books

West Coast Rare Books

Westport / Ireland

[Valera, Dev and his Alma Mater.

[Valera, Dev and his Alma Mater.

[Valera, Eamon de] Farragher, Sean P. Dev and his Alma Mater. Eamon de Valera’s Lifelong association with Blackrock College. Dublin, London, Paraclete Press, 1985. 23.5cm x 20cm. 239 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition, some shelfwear and dust dulling

Includes for Example:
de Valera was in close contact with Blackrock College, Dublin for seventy seven years. He looked on the College as his second home and lived in its vicinity most of his life/ The story of this liaison through the ‘Troubles’, his advent to power in the Thirties, and the Emergency years of the Forties is told from interviews with Dev and from contemporary documents/ including letters from Dev and his wife Sinead/ previously unpublished material which reveals aspects of de Valera known only to his closest friends/ 150 illustrations.

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Dev and his Alma Mater. Eamon de Valera's Lifelong association with Blackrock College.
Dev and his Alma Mater. Eamon de Valera’s Lifelong association with Blackrock College.

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