Lloyd George
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Western Front: from Messines to Passchendaele
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 05:00
1917. The year the US entered the first World War, and although France and Italy would come close to collapse, the Allies made important gains in the (...)

Passchendaele: A killing field of mud
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 05:00
By the summer of the third year of the Great War, human despair had emerged as a common enemy. The Third Battle of Ypres, now more widely referred to (...)

Fintan O’Toole: Church control of hospitals maintains myth of charity
- Opinion
- April 25, 2017, 04:00
In 1990, my second son was born in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. Of the women in the ward with my wife, one was 42 and had just had her seventh chil(...)

Professor Ronan Fanning: A giant of Irish historiography
- Irish News
- January 18, 2017, 19:58
The death of Ronan Fanning, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, professor emeritus of Modern History at University College Dublin and former presiden(...)

Gerry Adams has more in common with John Redmond than he might think
- Opinion
- August 30, 2016, 02:20
Politics goes in circles. One hundred years ago this summer John Redmond, Edward Carson and their colleagues played out the final denouement in the Ho(...)

Maj Gen Oliver Nugent: The suspect unionist
- Heritage
- May 18, 2016, 00:00
The correspondence of the soldier who commanded of 36th (Ulster) Division at the Somme makes for fascinating reading. During active service in the Gre(...)

Bruton wrong to claim Ireland could win independence by peaceful means alone
- Opinion
- March 30, 2016, 01:00
John Bruton, the former taoiseach, speaking in Dublin on September 18th, 2014, the centenary day of the Home Rule Act, declared himself to be a suppor(...)

The ‘true’ republicans: ‘Nothing since 1919 is legitimate’
- Irish News
- March 26, 2016, 01:00
The rooms in Republican Sinn Féin’s offices on Parnell Street in Dublin are filled with a chaotic clutter, a mass of agitprop paraphernalia stuffed in(...)

British propaganda on Tom Barry ‘given too much credence’
- Irish News
- November 29, 2015, 22:34
IRA Flying Column commander Tom Barry was acutely conscious of the importance of historical narrative when writing about the nature of the Wa(...)

Redmond: a Life Undone by Chris Dooley - a story of the man time almost forgot
- Books
- November 14, 2015, 04:00
The most controversial figure to date in this ‘Decade of Centenaries’ has been John Redmond and the role he played, or might have played in Irish h(...)