Éamon de Valera cytaty

Éamon de Valera – irlandzki bojownik o niepodległość kraju, polityk , premier i prezydent Irlandii. Doprowadził do uniezależnienia kraju od Wielkiej Brytanii.

De Valera jest postacią kontrowersyjną. Jedni uważają go za ojca niepodległego państwa irlandzkiego, inni obciążają go winą za krwawą wojnę domową, dla innych jest zdrajcą sprawy republikańskiej od chwili zerwania w 1926 z Sinn Féin i IRA.



✵ 14. Październik 1882 – 29. Sierpień 1975
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Éamon de Valera cytaty

„Jestem przekonany, że z czasem historia uzna wielkość Michaela Collinsa i uczyni to moim kosztem.”

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense. (ang.)
rzekomo wypowiedziane w 1966, przytoczone na końcu filmu Neila Jordana Michael Collins.
Źródło: Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins. A Biography, 1990, s. 432.

„Jeśli chcę wiedzieć, czego chce naród irlandzki, zaglądam po prostu do własnego serca i ono od razu mi mówi, czego chce naród irlandzki.”

Whenever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted. (ang.)
Źródło: stenogram debaty w Zgromadzeniu Irlandii (Dáil Éireann) o traktacie pomiędzy Wielką Brytanią i Irlandią, podpisanym w Londynie 6 grudnia 1921 http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/E900003-001.html, Dublin, 6 stycznia 1922

Éamon de Valera: Cytaty po angielsku

“The ideal Ireland that we would have, the Ireland that we dreamed of, would be the home of a people who valued material wealth only as a basis for right living, of a people who, satisfied with frugal comfort, devoted their leisure to the things of the spirit – a land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contest of athletic youths and the laughter of happy maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age. The home, in short, of a people living the life that God desires that men should live. With the tidings that make such an Ireland possible, St. Patrick came to our ancestors fifteen hundred years ago promising happiness here no less than happiness hereafter. It was the pursuit of such an Ireland that later made our country worthy to be called the island of saints and scholars. It was the idea of such an Ireland - happy, vigorous, spiritual - that fired the imagination of our poets; that made successive generations of patriotic men give their lives to win religious and political liberty; and that will urge men in our own and future generations to die, if need be, so that these liberties may be preserved. One hundred years ago, the Young Irelanders, by holding up the vision of such an Ireland before the people, inspired and moved them spiritually as our people had hardly been moved since the Golden Age of Irish civilisation. Fifty years later, the founders of the Gaelic League similarly inspired and moved the people of their day. So, later, did the leaders of the Irish Volunteers. We of this time, if we have the will and active enthusiasm, have the opportunity to inspire and move our generation in like manner. We can do so by keeping this thought of a noble future for our country constantly before our eyes, ever seeking in action to bring that future into being, and ever remembering that it is for our nation as a whole that future must be sought.”

Radio broadcast http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/eamon-de-valera/719124-address-by-mr-de-valera/, "On Language & the Irish Nation" (17 March 1943), often called "The Ireland that we dreamed of" speech

“A Dhomhnall, I have to tell you, you are abolished.”

To Domhnall O'Buachalla on abolishing the position of Governor-General
I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

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