Speeches and Statements by Eamon De Valera 1917-1973. Edited by Maurice Moynihan. Dublin: Gill, 1980. First Edition. Pp xlvii, 634. Large 8vo. Near fine in lightly faded dust jacket.

A definitive collection as is reasonably possible of the many speeches & statements delivered by De Valera in a political career spanning 56 years.

A distinguished civil servant, the editor Dr Maurice Moynihan, was a former long-serving Government secretary, governor of the Central Bank & one of the “architects” of the 1937 Constitution.