After all the excitement of the Rising, he worked doggedly to help people who had been part of it. Continue reading
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A Biography of a Flawed Colossus – Fanning on de Valera
Fanning is quick to point out that Dev ‘remains the most divisive figure in the history of modern Ireland’ (p 1). Fanning considers de Valera’s ‘culpability for the Irish Civil War…irrefutable’. Continue reading
Decolonising Indigenous Australia
Irish and Irish-identified Australians, or Scots who might have voted ‘Yes’, will be interested to read Noel Pearson’s latest pungent Quarterly Essay for its take on the agonizingly slow process of Indigenous decolonisation. Continue reading
