Robert Brennan
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If any building could be considered to be the home of the Irish revolution, that building would be 6 Harcourt Street. For four years it was the home(...)

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(...)

Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s complex ties with Catalonia
- Opinion
- October 7, 2017, 05:00
In seeking to smash the ballot boxes and the voters in last Sunday’s referendum on independence for Catalonia, the Spanish authorities inevitably scor(...)

Diarmaid Ferriter: Kenny must justify his lead role on Brexit
- Opinion
- January 7, 2017, 05:00
In 1922, after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Joseph Walshe, who had worked during the War of Independence in Sinn Féin’s Irish foreign servic(...)

Maeve Brennan story: The Day We Got Our Own Back
- Books
- May 24, 2016, 06:00
One afternoon some unfriendly men dressed in civilian clothes and carrying revolvers came to our house searching for my father, or for information ab(...)

From the Archives: October 3rd, 1977
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 3, 2015, 01:00
Dear Minister, Why can’t we get the prisons right? It’s not such a big job. A few years ago, we had less than 500 prisoners; even today it’s not much (...)

1916 Rising: Dublin 4 and 6 street maps
- Heritage
- June 20, 2015, 01:00
The Easter Rising began on Easter Monday – April 24th – 1916. The rebel leader Pádraig Pearse agreed to an unconditional surrender on Saturday, April (...)

Did Germany’s spies like us ?
- Culture
- August 10, 2013, 01:00
Getting up the noses of the Germans seems to come easily to us. The Anglo Irish Bank man’s sardonic bar of Deutschland Über Alles and the football (...)