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On this day
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
"More Irish than the Irish themselves?"
the forgotten Patriot
It was a wondrous drama, this life of his. With Ireland for the theatre and the whole civilised world as spectators. Speranza (Lady Wilde) on Daniel O’Connell, 1848
Francis O’Neill—collector, musician, adventurer & policeman
John Gray is the long-serving Librarian of that unique Irish institution, Belfast’s Linen Hall Library. He is equally well-known as a historian, dramatist, broadcaster and public speaker. During the bicentenary of the 1798 Rebellion, he was chairman of the Belfast-based United Irishmen Commemoration Society. Peter Collins talked to him
the early years of the Irish diplomatic service
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