Let’s deal with our historical figures as humans — not gods or devils

Dev’s papers have been transferred to UCD, which plans to digitalise them and make them available on the internet.

That will be an invaluable asset to those interested in history and a magnificent tribute to Dev himself. Hopefully, it could set a trend that would open up history to more people

FOR years there was a tendency to depict Eamon de Valera as responsible for the development of Ireland into the backward episcopal bog that it became in the 1950s. That changed dramatically in the 1960s. We enjoyed an economic boom, but it was lost again amid rising oil prices, political plunder and industrial lunacy like the demarcation disputes witnessed again this week.