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Irish Army deserters and the morality of neutrality.

Published in podcasts channel, The Emergency

Venue: National Library of Ireland,

Date and time: 7.30pm Wednesday 16 May

Brian Girvin (Uni. of Glasgow), Michael Kennedy (RIA, Documents of Irish Foreign Policy), Geoff Roberts (UCC) and Eunan O’Halpin (TCD).

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On this Day

2000 President Bill Clinton visited Northern Ireland for the final time in an official capacity, addressing a massive crowd at the Odyssey Arena.
1867 In a failed attempt to rescue Colonel Richard O’Sullivan Burke, Fenians blasted a wall at London’s Clerkenwell house of detention, killing twelve people.
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