DeValera - Was Irish President a British Agent?
September 28, 2014
(left, Eamon deValera (1882-1975) was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth-century Ireland. His political career spanned from 1917 to 1973 and he served multiple terms as head of state.)
"The English.. operated the greatest espionage system in history....The English "mole" or "sleeper" planted--often for decades- in rival political circles, was part of this tradition of espionage" - John Turi
Makow- I believe Hitler and Bormann were other examples of the British "Sleeper."
In England's Greatest Spy- Eamon deValera, (2009) US Naval Intelligence veteran John J. Turi made the case that the "Father of Ireland" was a British agent. DeValera's actions consistently were disastrous for the Irish people and beneficial to England. The unanimous derision the book received from Irish "intelligentsia"
lends credence to Turi's claims. Here he provided a rebuttal to one contemptuous review.
by John J. Turi (henrymakow.com)
I have recently been apprised of Mr. O Ruairc's comments regarding my book, England's Greatest Spy, Eamon deValera.
He charges that my book "rallies against the perceived orthodoxy and whole fabric of accepted Irish politics and twentieth century Irish history." In that regard he is correct, but is Mr. O Ruairc suggesting that an historian should never challenge prevailing public opinion, or only when it applies to Eamon deValera? He fails to comprehend the fact that his "perceived orthodoxy" script was written by deValera and it was the counterfeit republicans of Fianna Fail who acted out the farce of "accepted modern Irish politics and twentieth century Irish history."
It is understandable, however, that after more than a half-century of deValera propaganda and Fianna Fail lies, Mr. O Ruairc has come to believe deValera to be some sort of Irish folk hero. In fact, the Irish are in national denial as to the dark deeds of deValera.
Throughout his commentary, not once does Mr. Ruairc refute, disprove or contradict a single premise as set forth in my book. His critique is a polemic of name-calling, insults, sarcasm and ridicule in lieu of legitimate historical analysis. In fact, no reviewer of my book to date has disproved, refuted or contradicted my position.
Regarding the misconceptions and misleading statements of Mr. O Ruairc, he dismisses the undeniable results of deValera's actions in which every major decision of the Great Pretender resulted in enormous benefit to England and monumental disasters to Ireland. He attempts to deflect deValera's treachery by attributing it to merely "bad luck, chance, incompetence or poor decision-making."
(Ireland's Savior?)He scoffs at my contention that the British were fully aware of the 1916 Rising and allowed it to take place in order for the English not to be perceived in American eyes as having initiated another repression of the Irish. His misplaced reference to a "machine gun massacre" was actually the words of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, a Dublin pacifist, who recognized the obvious British plot to instigate a rebellion. John MacNeill also noted the British scheme to provoke the Irish into insurgency.
I set forth in great detail the fact that the British had access to German secret codes and were privy to the communications between John Devoy and Berlin regarding the plans for the Rising.
THE IRISH CIVIL WAR
Mr. O Ruairc casts aspersions on my assertion that deValera initiated the civil war, not because the Free State Treaty failed to include an Irish Republic or the Irish President's false claim that it contained an oath of allegiance to the King of England but to prevent Michael Collins from coming to the aid of the Catholics and Nationalists of Northern Ireland who were being terrorized by the Unionists.
(Left, Michael Collins)
Though he failed to recognize the conspirator, author Tim Pat Coogan actually set forth the real reason for the civil war. He noted Collins' fateful words to the IRA men of the North, "With this civil war on my hands, I cannot give you men the help I wish to give and mean to give. I now propose to call off hostilities in the North." The civil war was a boon for England as deValera created chaos in Southern Ireland before Collins could create chaos in Northern Ireland and it didn't cost the English a penny or a single soldier. The Irish people paid deValera's price.
Mr. O Ruairc casts aspersions on my assertion that deValera initiated the civil war, not because the Free State Treaty failed to include an Irish Republic or the Irish President's false claim that it contained an oath of allegiance to the King of England but to prevent Michael Collins from coming to the aid of the Catholics and Nationalists of Northern Ireland who were being terrorized by the Unionists.
(Left, Michael Collins) Though he failed to recognize the conspirator, author Tim Pat Coogan actually set forth the real reason for the civil war. He noted Collins' fateful words to the IRA men of the North, "With this civil war on my hands, I cannot give you men the help I wish to give and mean to give. I now propose to call off hostilities in the North." The civil war was a boon for England as deValera created chaos in Southern Ireland before Collins could create chaos in Northern Ireland and it didn't cost the English a penny or a single soldier. The Irish people paid deValera's price.
Mr. O Ruairc disregards the incontrovertible fact that deValera and the Dail members abandoned their demand for recognition of an Irish republic on at least four occasions prior to sending the Irish delegation to the London Peace Conference. The Irish delegation presented the final Free State Treaty draft to deValera, the Cabinet and other leaders on December 3, 1920. For more than seven hours of discussion, not once did deValera inform the delegation that he was opposed to the Treaty because it failed to include recognition of an Irish Republic. His only instruction to the delegation was that the oath be amended to the satisfaction of the delegation.
DeValera, himself, had proposed two oaths. There was no oath of allegiance to the King in the Free State Treaty, only a promise to be faithful to the King as head of an association (Commonwealth) of which Ireland was but one member.
DeValera, himself, had proposed two oaths. There was no oath of allegiance to the King in the Free State Treaty, only a promise to be faithful to the King as head of an association (Commonwealth) of which Ireland was but one member.
Three days later, on December 6, deValera flip-flopped and was a 'born again' republican fanatic charging that the delegation, Collins and Griffith, in particular were traitors for signing a treaty that did not include recognition of an Irish Republic.
Mr. O Ruairc cannot be serious in denying the economic catastrophe deValera wrought upon the Irish people. It is irrefutable. He also inexplicably does not want the truth of the murders of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith to see the light of day and growls, "What would be the purpose for these exhumations?"
IRELAND'S FAUX "NEUTRALITY" IN WORLD WAR TWO
IRELAND'S FAUX "NEUTRALITY" IN WORLD WAR TWO
The greatest hoax deValera and Winston Churchill played on the Irish is the conception that the Irish were neutral during WWII. Mr. O Ruairc fails to acknowledge the disaster that deValera's phony 'neutrality' was to Ireland and its enormous benefit to England. As many as 200,000 Irish flocked to England's colors to fight against one of the most evil regimes in history. The Irish suffered proportionately more casualties than the English or Americans.
Surely, no rational person can believe that if the Nazis won the war, Ireland would not suffer a similar fate as the other conquered small countries. WWII was not only England's finest hour but also Ireland's as the Irish set aside centuries of repression and shipped every morsel of surplus food to feed the starving British. Hundreds of thousands of Irish men and women labored in English and Northern Ireland factories producing the sinews of war to sustain England until America could organize her industrial might to relieve the hard-pressed English. DeValera mobilized the entire country to provide England with every necessity Ireland could provide, turning over Ireland's entire fleet of oil tankers, cooperating militarily, economically and much, much more.
Surely, no rational person can believe that if the Nazis won the war, Ireland would not suffer a similar fate as the other conquered small countries. WWII was not only England's finest hour but also Ireland's as the Irish set aside centuries of repression and shipped every morsel of surplus food to feed the starving British. Hundreds of thousands of Irish men and women labored in English and Northern Ireland factories producing the sinews of war to sustain England until America could organize her industrial might to relieve the hard-pressed English. DeValera mobilized the entire country to provide England with every necessity Ireland could provide, turning over Ireland's entire fleet of oil tankers, cooperating militarily, economically and much, much more.
After the war, deValera refused to admit Ireland's magnificent contribution to the Allied victory over Germany. Mr. O Ruairc also ignores the fact that the Irish President destroyed all records of Ireland's involvement in WWII thereby depriving Irish historians of valuable insight into deValera's neutrality scam on the Irish people. The result of his 'neutrality' was that partition was etched in stone, Ireland was ostracized as being pro-Nazi and the doors to Irish immigration to America were slammed shut. One million Irish, one fourth the entire population of Ireland, preferred to live in England, the land of the 'oppressor' rather than deValera's dystopia. Ireland was denied membership in the UN, Marshall Plan aid was a pittance and America considered partition to be an internal matter of England and refused to intervene on Ireland's behalf. Of greater import to the English, however, was that deValera's 'neutrality' and 'pro-Nazi' stance destroyed Irish-American political influence and eliminated opposition to Anglo-American cooperation, a repeat of his Irish disaster in America in 1919-20....
(L.NATIONAL ARMY BOMBARDS COURTS IN DUBLIN) CIVIL WAR HAVOC
Furthermore, Mr. Ruairc was critical of my categorizing the counterfeit republicans who followed deValera in making war on their own people as poor imitations of Hitler's Brown Shirts. After abandoning their demands for recognition of an Irish Republic on at least four occasions, they pontificated their republican credentials and their contempt for the rights of the majority of the Irish people who voted three to one in favor of the Free State Treaty. Under his absurd banner, "The majority has no right to do wrong," deValera unleashed his counterfeit republicans upon their own countrymen rampaging throughout Ireland murdering, beating, robbing and looting. They burned down the houses of their fellow countrymen solely because they supported the Free State Government and majority rule.
They torched Sean McGarry's home with his children inside. Mrs. McGarry pleaded with the counterfeit republicans to no avail and rushed into the blazing home to rescue her children. One little child died of horrible burns the following morning and Mrs. McGarry suffered serious burns as well. They wrecked newspaper offices because they dared to print news contrary to their liking, destroying printing presses, beating pressmen and setting fire to the buildings. The Hierarchy excommunicated these counterfeit republicans, rightly characterizing them as murderers and assassins. Mr. O Ruairc cannot grasp the significance that deValera, who initiated a civil war over the lack of recognition of an Irish Republic in the Free State Treaty, refused to declare an Irish Republic in all the years he was in office.
It is understandable that Mr. O Ruairc remains silent as to these terrible deeds, for after so many years of Fianna Fail disinformation, he has come to view the traitors as heroes and the real heroes, the true fathers of the Irish nation, Collins and Griffith, as traitors.
He also finds fault with my calling for a posthumous trial of deValera ignoring the fact that deValera himself requested such a trial. John Devoy, the great Irish-American leader, described deValera as "the most malignant man in Irish history."
I liken myself to the boy who cried, "Look the Emperor has no clothes," while everyone else is pretending what a fine specimen King deValera makes in all his invisible finery.
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BB said (September 29, 2014):
I think that DeValara was a flawed but essentially well meaning character. The civil war was was largely his fault but I doubt whether
it was caused by his loyalty to the Crown.
Dev set about creating an Irish Republic (which he achieved after a number of years in power). He confined Irish Freemasons to the Seanead
(Senate) where they became largely irrelevant. He also worked closely with the Catholic Church, which helped to maintain high moral standards in the country for decades (divorce was only introduced in 1995, abortions are still illegal).
I have also noticed that Mr. Turi
refers to De Valera's Catholicism as "Papism" in a related discussion which leads me to believe he is coming from a Protestant background
and therefore he appears biased.
De Valera also kept Ireland out of the fratricide in Europe. Many Irishmen fought for the Brits, some fought for the Germans, but these were all volunteers.