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’.

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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’.
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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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  • The Chairman, Mr. T. F. M'Gahon, refused to accept a motion by Mr. P. Hughes, ex-secretary N. Louth U.I.L. Executive, at the Dundalk U.C. meeting yesterday to present an address of…
  • Mr. B. Hamill said the "firebrand" was still in public life and an honour to the country. The Chairman stating that he had given his views and that ended it, Mr. Hughes retorted th…
  • "Perhaps you would go as far as the Chairman of the Co. Council," remarked Mr. Hughes, Mr. C. J. M'Gahon adding. "Perhaps as far as Cardinal Logue," Mr. Hughes replying that nobody…
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Samuel Stallen Nathaniel Samuels

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DE VALERA'S ORATORY. A SPEAKER WHO DOES NOT FINISH HIS SENTENCES. Mr. Darrell Figgis, who writes about Mr. De Valera in the new number of the "World's Work," observes that his mind is full of incomplete sentences. "He never looked to the end of what he wished to say—or, for that matter, of what he willed to do—but turned to follow a new thought before he, or any one else, had caught the first. He did this so imperiously and impatiently, however, that he lent an air of tremendous decision to his own indecision. "I remember him on one occasion (for I studied him curiously and attentively) entering on three successive sentences, and leaving each before he came to its verb; and I wondered whether he had baulked at those verbs or whether they were ever present to his mind at all. Nor was this a refinement of speech in the search for perfection. At first I had assumed it to be this; but I found, as I watched, that he moved away from his incompleted thoughts to others altogether new, often doubling back upon his traces to expand themes that had already been finished when confronted by themes at which he shied. "All this, however, was delivered with the didactic emphasis of a schoolmaster, an engaging and captivating schoolmaster, imperious and impetuous. In later days I was told that a high dignity in Ireland, who had had occasion to be present at important negotiations with him, said that it was as difficult to fix him to a decision as it would be to fix mercury on a plate with a fork. The figure seemed to me most just; but it missed the great air of didactic emphasis, changing quickly to engaging charm, with which he vested his mercurial shiftings. Yet this, too, betokened the same defect; for he had nothing of the calm of mind that is of the essence of true decision of character." "Oratory" "Sunday July 15 1923

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