de Valera in America: The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign.

by Dave Hannigan

Retraces the steps of an incredible journey of a leader in exile that would resonate through Irish history for the rest of the century ...In June 1919 Eamon de Valera stowed away on a liner bound for New York and walked into the Waldorf-Astoria using the title 'President of Ireland'. He spent eighteen months billeted in the most expensive hotel in the world. From this luxurious base, de Valera criss-crossed America by plane, boat and train...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847170862
• ISBN13: 9781847170866
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 320 Pages