Spies by proxy

In the first of two articles, Ryle Dwyer explains the truth behind the distorted machinations of David Gray, the wartime US minister to Ireland

WHILE writing my doctoral dissertation on relations between the US and Ireland during the Second World War, I was approached to edit a memoir by David Gray.

It quickly became apparent that his distorted diatribe was only of value in exposing his dreadful judgment and twisted thinking. The memoir has been published under the title A Yankee in de Valera’s Ireland.