Dev didn’t win every conflict with Churchill

EAMON de Valera should not automatically be awarded first prize in every conflict he had with Winston Churchill.

It seems to me the current revival of interest in him is in grave danger of turning Dev into a superman responsible for every major historical action during the last century.

Brendan Cafferty (Letters, December 18) holds Dev responsible for the loss of pre-1901 census records because of what he refers to as “the inglorious destruction of the Custom House in the Civil War”.