Almost five decades after his death, the legacy of Éamon de Valera is in the news again. […] On a visit to Israel, the Tánaiste (Micheál Martin) faced some criticism in local media for Ireland’s perceived anti-Israeli position and in that context was asked (by an Irish journalist) whether it had been a mistake for de Valera, as Taoiseach, to offer condolences to the German nation on the death of Adolf Hitler. This controversial act, one of the most controversial things de Valera ever did, has been regularly resurrected in the decades since, with some using it to suggest that...