Classics of Irish History: `Ireland Standing Firm’ and `Eamon de Valera: A Memoir’.
Author: BRENNAN, Robert.
Publisher: Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2002. xviii, 182pp. Paperback.
Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington
Eamon de Valera: A Memoir with an introduction by Richard H. Rupp
Ireland Standing Firm is a frank and pungent account of Robert Brennan’s time as Irish Minister in Washington immediately before and during the Second World War. Brennan gives a fascinating account of his efforts in defending Irish neutrality and his meetings with leading American officials and politicians, including Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In the second memoir, Eamon de Valera, Brennan describes his close association with Eamon de Valera from their first meeting in prison in 1917 until de Valera’s retirement as Taoiseach in 1959.
These two entertaining memoirs were originally written for publication in the Irish Press newspaper in the 1950s.
Robert Brennan (1881-1964) was born in Wexford and worked as a surveyor, journalist and writer before joining Sinn Fein. He was the first Managing Editor of the Irish Press newspaper and was appointed by de Valera as Secretary of the Irish Legation and later Minister in Washington (1934-47). After his return from Washington he was Director of Radio Eireann.
ISBN: 1900621681
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