‘I don’t think it’s possible to write a definitive biography of someone like de Valera, but I’ve tried to get as close as I could ’
Most people know David McCullagh as co-presenter of RTÉ’s Prime Time, but now the 49-year-old is showing off his literary side with a comprehensive new biography of Eamon de Valera, writes Andrew Lynch
David McCullagh never expected to write a biography of Eamon de Valera. He laughed out loud when the publishing director of Gill Books suggested it to him during a conversation on Dublin’s Molesworth Street six years ago, and assumed that the subject had already been done to death. Nor did the RTÉ Prime Time presenter have a particularly high opinion of the Long Fellow – despite the fact that he owes his start ...
