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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
The longphort phenomenon in Early Christian and Viking Ireland
brilliant Dublin boyhood, cantankerous London old age
nineteenth-century travel patterns from Ireland to the River Plate
From a Tipperary Anglo-Irish background and with an English public school and Christ Church, Oxford, education, Senator Martin Mansergh has always seemed an unlikely advisor to Fianna Fáil leaders. Yet, since he was appointed by Charles J. Haughey in 1981, he has been the éminence grise of various Fianna Fáil-led administrations, particularly in relation to the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Tommy Graham spoke to him recently in the light of the publication of The Legacy of History (Mercier Press), a collection of his essays and speeches.
In popular memory the Black-and-Tans and Auxiliaries are remembered as criminals and misfits, the dregs of British society. W.J. Lowe examines the RIC register of recruits for 1920–2 to find out.