Éamon de Valera / Bound Document and Photographic Album

A bound volume containing newspaper clippings, printed election ephemera, and photographs relating to the political career of Éamon de Valera. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Dev’. The volume includes clippings of largely laudatory articles taken from the ‘Irish Press’, the ‘Sunday Chronicle’, and other titles. The volume is a ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting Volume’.

Details

Level of description: File
Date: 1917-1947
Reference: 40
Extent and medium: 100 pp; 30 cm x 25 cm; Bound volume, clipping, typescript, printed and photographic print
Scope and content: A bound volume containing newspaper clippings, printed election ephemera, and photographs relating to the political career of Éamon de Valera. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Dev’. The volume includes clippings of largely laudatory articles taken from the ‘Irish Press’, the ‘Sunday Chronicle’, and other titles. The volume is a ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting Volume’.
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Bound Photographic and Document Volumes

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staff , is sweeping through Clare east and
staff . is sweeping through Clare east and
County Clare he has between 15,000 and

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I watched , that he moved away from his incom- wondered whether he had baptized at those didactic emphasis , changing quickly to engage- I had assumed it to be this : but I found , as verbs or whether they were ever present to follow a new thought before he , or any one else defect ; for he had nothing of the calm of mind me most just : but it missed the great air of by themes at which he shied . studied him curiously and attentively ) matter , of what he willed to do-but turned to ing and captivating schoolmaster . imperious His sentences . with him . said that it was as difficult to fix A speaker who does not finish that had already been finished when confronted shiftings . Yet this , too , betokened the same doubling back upon his traces to expand themes had caught the first . He did this so imperi- the end of what he wished to say -or . for that sion to be present at important negotiations speech in the search for perfection . At first ing each before he came to its verb : and I ously and impatiently , however , that he left an All this , however , was delivered with the a high dignity in Ireland , who had had occa- and imperuous . In later days I was told that that is of the essence of true decision of Mr. Darrell , Fizzis , who writes about Mr. on a plate with a fork . The figure seemed to De Valera in the new number of the " World's ing charm , with which he vested his mercurial Aug 15-1923 character . " didactic emphasis of a schoolmaster , an engaged- T remember him on one occasion ( for I complete sentences . , " He never looked to sumony . Work , " observes that his mind is full of in- pleted thoughts to others altogether new , often him to a decision as it would be to fix mercury De Valera's Oratory . his mind at all . ' Nor was this a refinement of obscurate . entering on three successive sentences , and leave- sion . of tremendous decision to his own index

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Prime Minister of Eire Famed Figure Eamon de Valera ment sin . been a he has guished .

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