Michael O Flanagan
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Political Footpath – Frank McNally wonders why pedestrians and cyclists can’t just get along (on the same pavement if necessary)
- Opinion
- October 22, 2019, 18:30
I didn’t make it to Buswell’s Hotel on Monday night for the launch of Ireland’s newest lobby group, the Pedestrian Rights Organisation. But ap(...)

Mary MacSwiney: The Free State’s ‘gorgon republican’
- Heritage
- December 10, 2018, 00:00
Mary MacSwiney (1872-1942), republican, was born on March 27th, 1872, in Bermondsey in London, the eldest of seven surviving children of an English mo(...)

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(...)

Dublin Festival of History: JFK, Harry Potter and Nicholas II up for discussion
- Irish News
- September 4, 2017, 15:45
The former governor of Hong Kong and British cabinet minister Chris Patten will be among the speakers at the Dublin Festival of History next month. M(...)

Trade unionist ‘exposed atrocious conditions of workers and families’
- Irish News
- July 15, 2017, 19:32
Trade unionist Des Geraghty has recalled how a Dublin Corporation study in 1903 established that “virtually 60 per cent of Dublin families, with an av(...)