John Bowman
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New Irish revolution documentary steers away from ‘great man’ approach
- Irish News
- January 29, 2019, 08:56
A new documentary series The Irish Revolution successfully captures the approach taken in the award winning book Atlas of the Irish Revolution on whic(...)

Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
- Abroad
- January 9, 2019, 10:00
“To be an artist… you have to be very severe with your amount of energy… To have an overriding hobby, that’s the secret. Mine was an overriding hobby,(...)

Mayhew was criticised by both sides over shoot-to-kill decision
- Politics
- December 29, 2018, 02:58
Among the most controversial politicians of 1988 was then British attorney general Patrick Mayhew. On January 20th that year, Irish diplomat Richard R(...)

John Bowman: How Irish diplomats ‘dined for Ireland’
- Politics
- December 30, 2017, 02:30
During the negotiations which led to the historic Anglo-Irish Agreement signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher at Hillsborough in November (...)

Ireland’s stringent 30-year rule limits understanding
- Politics
- December 29, 2017, 00:10
For some years now there has been an anomaly when considering diplomatic records in Anglo-Irish relations. The British are moving incrementally towar(...)

‘Tough nuts’ Haughey and Thatcher get reacquainted as London says it’s business as usual
- Politics
- December 29, 2017, 00:05
1987 was an election year in both the Republic and in Britain: Charles Haughey returned to the Taoiseach’s office in March and Margaret Thatcher forme(...)

Taoiseach rules out UK-style loan scheme for students
- Education
- September 27, 2017, 01:00
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said while third level students should make a contribution toward their education, he could not support a system that left (...)

Heavy reading: UCC launches 5kg ‘Atlas of Irish Revolution’
- Books
- September 14, 2017, 15:45
As weighty tomes go, they do not get much weightier than the newly published Atlas of the Irish Revolution. This monumental work of almost 1,000 pag(...)

Pushing the Irish unity agenda could backfire on the South
- Opinion
- August 28, 2017, 01:43
Over the last year new attention has focused on the idea of Irish unity. Sinn Féin has called for a Border poll, reunification has become a subject of(...)

The rise and fall of western syphilisation – An Irishman’s Diary about a once-dreaded disease
- Opinion
- May 31, 2017, 00:01
In one of James Joyce’s more scurrilous puns, from Ulysses, his protagonist known only as “the citizen” expresses contempt for any talk of the civilis(...)