Quotes About Eamon De Valera

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.