Eamon de Valera -- founder of the Irish Republic -- 'was a British spy'

A new book to be published next month makes the shocking claim that Eamon de Valera, the founding father of the Irish Republic, was under the control of the British.

The book, provocatively titled 'England's Greatest Spy: Eamon de Valera', suggests that Dev was terrified of being executed after the Rising and was "turned" in exchange for his life. For some years afterwards, the book claims, Dev was under British control.


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