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About LinkBacksA statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela is being unveiled in London. is it about time someone like Eamon de Valera also so honoured in Ireland?
A statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela is being unveiled in London. is it about time someone like Eamon de Valera also so honoured in Ireland?
why?
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What is interesting is that GB saw Mandela as a terrorist once and is now honouring him.
As for de Valera, why?
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dev, not a chance.
ghandi on the other hand, not likely to be divisive and can be seen in ben kinsley rose tinted glasses.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
If and only for one reason he gave this nation the
Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Constitution of Ireland, is the basic law of Ireland. It established Ireland as a new nation in the world that is my why.
He didn't do all those things by himself and he also had a constitution to base his on - so why not give a statue to WJG or Collins or Redmond or .. or ..
So he gets a statue for that but not for almost destroying the farming industry, making Ireland the only country in western Europe to get poorer as the 20th century progressed, for the stultifying influence of the Catholic Church he did nothign to stop, for staying in politics about 30 years too long etc etc. A statue of Dev would be smashed up within a few hours of going up and rightly so!
The constitution was the work of Éamon de Valera, President of the Executive Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free State. It was actually drafted in two languages, Irish and English: in Irish by Micheál Ó Gríobhtha (assisted by Risteárd Ó Foghludha), who worked in the Irish Department of Education, and in English by John Hearne, legal adviser to the Department of External Affairs (now called the Department of Foreign Affairs). De Valera served as his own External Affairs Minister, hence the use of the Department's Legal Advisor, with whom he had previously worked closely, as opposed to the Attorney-General or someone from the Department of the President of the Executive Council
the free state constitution was a very poor effort see copy of text and Author: [unknown]
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/E900003-004/ -
How about a statue of de Valera in London?
How about in New York where he was from? Ironic that someone born out of wedlock should be so supportive of what the Catholic church did to unmarried mothers.
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