De Valera's unknown father haunted him, driving his need to belong to institutions like the Republican movement.
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A steady portrait of the man who helped shape modern Ireland.
The episode follows Eamon de Valera from a New York birth and a rural Limerick childhood through the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Treaty split, Fianna Fail, and his rise to power in Dublin in 1932.
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For a measured look at de Valera, from revolutionary leader to statesman.
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