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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
Fear and loathing at Coolacrease
In May 1933 two members of the Scottish Protestant League vandalised a large painting of William of Orange hanging in the Stormont parliament. What provoked their ire? Was it really King Billy? What became of the painting? Tony Canavan investigates.
Carole Holohan jogs our memories on a year that gave us punk rock, serial killer ‘Son of Sam’ and Dublin’s stunning victory over Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final by looking at government papers recently released into the National Archives. She pays particular attention to the plight of the Irish in Britain.
Kevin Haddick Flynn charts the achievements of the interparty government of 1948–51, usually associated in the public mind with the controversy surrounding the aborted Mother and Child Scheme and therefore failure.
Bryan MacMahon argues that Bernard Connor, most often described as ‘the Irish physician of the king of Poland’, deserves to be honoured as one of the finest minds of his age and for a distinguished (but sadly short) career in the fields of medicine, history and philosophy.
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