This is an excellent book, restored for a modern audience thanks to UCD. While the second half of the books will seem like hagiography or at the least some extremely favourable bias for opponents of de Valera and Fianna Fáil it is nonetheless heartfelt and indicative of many party supporters at the time. The first part of the memoir is in my view the most interesting and details how dirty tricks were attempted by the Allies to force Ireland to abandon neutrality including by force. The memoir makes one think how grateful we must be that we had someone like Brennan in the US at the time. ( )

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