Calling all irish people (who know about Eamon de Valera)

"We defeat the British Empire by ignoring it."

did Eamon de Valera ever say this or was it just in the michael collins film.

Reply 1

I don't think so, it seems they put that in the film to sum up the thinking behind his tactics

Reply 2

ah what a shame. never sounds as good quoting a film as it does a political leader

Reply 3

yeah i get you, but he did have some decent actual quotes as well

Reply 4

Yes he did. His rivers of blood speech. That and other speech’s lit the fuse on the civil war.

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