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On this day
Editor’s recommendation
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Two nations, one order: the Franciscans in medieval Ireland
Westmeath 1880–1905
James Joyce’s portrait of early twentieth-century Ireland
With biographies of Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, his book on the IRA (now in several editions) and his most recent Ireland in the twentieth century (Hutchinson), Tim Pat Coogan is one of Ireland’s most prolific writers of history, certainly one of the most widely read. Brendan Bradshaw talked to him recently and found his passion and enthusiasm—and anger—undimmed.
American soldiers find a rare Gaelic welcome in the city by the Liffey and the Irish are not beyond telling a GI on furlough what the States are like. by Corporal Edmund Antrobus Yank staff correspondent