Sean T O Kelly
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Historic coalition agreement ends almost a century of Civil War politics
- Irish News
- June 27, 2020, 09:22
Civil War politics began in the surroundings of what is now the National Concert Hall in Earlsfort Terrace and has ended 98 years later at the Convent(...)

‘Guns thunder at midnight’: when the Republic left the Commonwealth
- Irish News
- April 18, 2019, 09:05
Midnight passed on April 18th, 1949, but the 21 gun salute that was due to take place couldn’t go ahead as eager crowds broke through the barriers on (...)

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,(...)

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(...)

Daughter of British captain who accepted Pearse’s surrender dies aged 107
- Irish News
- November 20, 2017
Dorothea Findlater, who remembered seeing the flames as Dublin burned during the week of the Easter Rising, has died at the age of 107. Her father, C(...)

Five TV shows to watch this week
- TV, Radio, Web
- August 6, 2017, 12:00
Diana: In Her Own Words Channel 4, Sunday, 9pm As publicity goes, it was a bumper week for Channel 4, which couldn’t have asked for more opinion piece(...)

While the first St Patrick’s Day meeting in the White House between a US president and a taoiseach took place back in 1956, it has only become an annu(...)

Diarmaid Ferriter: The 1916 prisoners released on Christmas Eve
- Opinion
- December 24, 2016, 07:00
On this day one hundred years ago, those untried prisoners returning to Ireland following their internment after the Easter Rising had every reason to(...)

Shamrock reprise: Trump will meet Kenny at White House
- Politics
- November 23, 2016, 01:00
US president-elect Donald Trump has promised to continue the tradition of inviting the Taoiseach to the White House for the presentation of a bowl of (...)

Éamonn Ceannt, Douglas Hyde, Pádraig Pearse and Constance Markievicz were in anything but insurrectional mood when they gathered in Galway for a very (...)