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Life
1901-1965 [Christopher Stephen; “Todd” Andrews]; b. Terenure, 6 Oct.; son of small business family; Participant in 1916 Rising; interned during Civil War; returned to live with parents; ed. UCd; trainee accountant; worked for Tourist Board, 1926-30, and later as ESB Inspector, 1930-33 before being appt. head of Bord na Mona, 1946; attracted by National Socialism (Nazi-ism) and attended German legation throughout the war; became chief executive of CIE, 1958, and in that capacity closed Harcourt St. railway line; chairman of RTÉ, 1966-70, resigning on appt. of his son David Andrews as Fianna Fáil whip chief; member of the Arts Council; issued autobiographies Dublin Made Me (1979), up to 1916, and A Man of No Property (1982), from internment to the 1950s; received hon. degrees from NUI, TCD and QUB; d. 11 Oct.
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Works
Autobiography, Dublin Made Me (Cork: Mercier 1979), 312pp; A Man of No Property (Cork: Mercier 1982; rep. edn. Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 352pp. Miscellaneous, Review of Peat Resources and Development in Ireland [Papers presented at the International Peat Symposium: Bord na Móna, Dublin, 12-18 July 1954] (1954), vpp.; with J. P. Beddy, comments in Sean Francis Lemass, The Role of the State Sponsored Bodies (Dublin: IPA 1959), 28pp.
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Criticism
Bryan Fanning & Tom Garvin, ‘C.S. Andrews, Dublin Made Me (1979)’, in Books That Define Ireland (Sallins: Merrion 2014), Chap. 25.
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Quotations
Catholics: ‘We Catholics varied socially among ourselves but we all had the common bond, whatever our economic condition, of being second-class citizens.’ (C. S. Andrews, Dublin Made Me. An Autobiography (Cork, 1979), p 10; quoted in Richard English, ‘“The Inborn Hatred of Things English: Ernie O’Malley and the Irish Revolution, 1916-1923’, in Past and Present, May 1996, pp.174-99.)
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Notes
Title deeds: “Dublin Made Me” is a poem of Donagh MacDonagh; A Man of no Property is Theobald Wolfe Tone’s celebrated epithet.
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