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A Yankee in de Valera's Ireland : the memoir of David Gray / edited by Paul Bew.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 2012Publisher: Text © 2012 Royal Irish AcademyDescription: xli, 341 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781908996053
Subject(s): Summary: Lawyer, soldier, journalist and playwright, David Gray cuts an unlikely diplomatic figure. Born in Buffalo, New York in 1870, he took up the post of US Minister to Ireland in 1940. His memoir of that year, 'Behind the Emerald Curtain', is published here for the first time.Summary: Vivid, lyrical, forthright and eviscerating, Gray reveals life in a privileged milieu amid the darker currents of war, political discord, collaboration and espionage. Diary entries, secret documents, press extracts, letters to Roosevelt, and conversations with his ideological opponent de ValeraSummary: are knitted together in this intriguing narrative, introduced by Paul Bew.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lawyer, soldier, journalist and playwright, David Gray cuts an unlikely diplomatic figure. Born in Buffalo, New York in 1870, he took up the post of US Minister to Ireland in 1940. His memoir of that year, 'Behind the Emerald Curtain', is published here for the first time.

Vivid, lyrical, forthright and eviscerating, Gray reveals life in a privileged milieu amid the darker currents of war, political discord, collaboration and espionage. Diary entries, secret documents, press extracts, letters to Roosevelt, and conversations with his ideological opponent de Valera

are knitted together in this intriguing narrative, introduced by Paul Bew.

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