Darrell Figgis

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Erskine Childers: born in London 150 years ago on June 25th. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
‘The zeal of the convert’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Erskine Childers

One of Erskine Childers’s biographies is titled The Riddle of Erskine Childers, and there was much that was enigmatic about him. English born, he work(...)

Eamon De Valera addressing a meeting in Los Angeles on his US tour as president of Dail Eireann. Photograph: Hulton Archive
Ireland 1919: How would victorious Sinn Féin wield power?

In December 1918, while the votes in the general election were still being counted, Sir Henry Robinson, a senior official in the Irish administration,(...)

Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party John Redmond (left) with John Dillon, who succeeded him as leader, circa 1910. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis

In January 1918, the Daily Mail referred to the “increasing weakness” of Sinn Féin – a reminder that as far as some contemporary observers were concer(...)

The Asgard in 1961 after the yacht was bought by the government. Photograph: Trinity College Dublin
Equally audacious: the Kilcoole gun-running

A week after the Howth gun-running of July 26th, 1914, there occurred the equally audacious gun-running at Kilcoole in Co Wicklow – the other half,(...)