Eamon de Valera and the Banner County
- ISBN-10
- 0907606075
- ISBN-13
- 9780907606079
- Category
- Clare
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Glendale Press
- Author
- Kevin J. Browne
Description
On Saturday , August 12 , Arthur Griffith died in a private nursing home at 96 Leeson Street in Dublin and on the next day , General Michael Collins , Chief of Staff of the National Army , arrived in Ennis .
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