Hi Balladeer

I have sung in a Irish band for some 15 years now and this is an area of Irish history that I know so little of. Was DeValera a hero or a villian? I can't say. I do know he was elected president of the republic for 40 years +/-. Something villians are rarely elected too in a free democracy. One friend said to me that DeValera's luck in not being excecuted with the rest of the leaders has something to due with the acrimony we hear from time to time. His main luck was that he was an American citizen by birth and the Brits didn't want to get us too mad.

Good luck in your search of truth and history. When you learn the truth, tell it. The truth has a way of making some uneasy but it never harmed anyone.

Don