€100 - €200
De Valera, Eamonn, archive: Evening Press, 29 Aug. 1975. Announcing death of Dev. - several pages on him plus a special 4-page supplement; Irish Press, 30 August, 1975. Special memorial supplement, 18 pages on every aspect of his life & career with photos. Dev founded the Irish Press of which Evening Press and Sunday Press were divisional titles; The Irish Times, Sat. Aug. 30. With Special 12-page supplement on his life & influence, plus numerous comments on him from widely ranging quarters in the news section; Sunday Press, Aug 31, on his lying in state, tributes, & pictures. Plus Supplement 8 pages on his life & career; Sunday Independent, Aug. 31. Lying in state, articles, etc., bizarrely with a pictorial outer coloured cover on the Irish Open Golf tournament; Evening Press, 2 Sept., funeral Reports; Irish Independent, 3 Sept, funeral Reports; 3 other items incl. Irish Press, May 17 1945 on Dev’s broadcast to the nation replying to Churchill, and the separate publication of that as Taoiseach’s Broadcast to the Nation, reprinted from ‘The Irish Press’, Thursday 17th May, 1945 with photo on front cover. Excellent and probably unrepeatable collection covering a wide range of opinions of him.
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