Robert Gregory
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Out of puff – Frank McNally on a ‘cure’ for flu that made legal history
- Opinion
- February 28, 2020, 19:01
When advertisers make grandiose claims for a product, suggesting it will increase your longevity or make you sexually irresistible, or whatever, they (...)

Galway, 1920: Black and Tan with revolver shot in all directions during gunfight
- Heritage
- October 15, 2019, 00:00
The Revolution Files is a collection of articles detailing one incident in each of Ireland’s 32 counties during the revolutionary years, from 1916 to (...)

‘Those that I fight I do not hate’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Robert Gregory
- Opinion
- January 23, 2018, 00:01
The poet WB Yeats managed to distil the dilemma of Irish nationalist servicemen in the British forces into just two lines in his great poem An Irish A(...)

Germ warfare – An Irishman’s Diary about Maj Robert Gregory and the Spanish flu
- Opinion
- January 13, 2018, 00:01
There was nothing especially Spanish about the Spanish flu: the global pandemic that, in two years beginning a century ago this month, killed more peo(...)

Denis Donoghue: Why WB Yeats matters
- Books
- June 10, 2015, 01:00
Many years ago I gave a lecture at Queen’s University Belfast on a theme I have long since forgotten. After the lecture Prof Singh of the Italian d(...)

Grand plans for WB Yeats’s ‘invincible tower’ at Gort
- People
- May 29, 2015, 06:00
Not everyone would pick a draughty old Norman keep for a home to grow old in, but then not everyone shared the mindset of WB Yeats. “I am makin(...)

Lost for words: Irish writing on the first World War
- Heritage
- May 5, 2015, 01:00
In June 1915 WB Yeats wrote to his American friend and patron John Quinn about the Great War then raging across Europe. It was, he said, “merely th(...)