Darrell Figgis
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‘The zeal of the convert’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Erskine Childers
- Opinion
- June 22, 2020, 18:30
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(...)

Ireland 1919: How would victorious Sinn Féin wield power?
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019, 00:00
In December 1918, while the votes in the general election were still being counted, Sir Henry Robinson, a senior official in the Irish administration,(...)

Sinn Féin and the conscription crisis
- Heritage
- April 24, 2018, 00:00
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(...)

Equally audacious: the Kilcoole gun-running
- Heritage
- July 19, 2014, 01:00
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,(...)