Ireland’s Stand. Being a selection of the Speeches of Eamon De Valera during the War (1939-1945) Dublin: Gill, 1946. First Edition. Pp, 101. A fine bright copy in green buckram boards, lacks dust jacket.

A selection of De Valera’s speeches in the Dáil, over the radio and on various public occasion, arranged in chronological order. Telling the story of the successive crisis which which Ireland passed during the Second World Ear and explain the circumstances in which the national policy was decided upon and sustained.