I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

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Forgetting to Remember

Sean Byrne
We have commemorated many events and traditions in the decade of centenaries. But no one, it seems, wishes to recall the repression by the new state of working class militancy.
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The Songs Remain

If all war is an affront to humanity, there is something even more terrible about a country at war with itself. The wounds heal slowly, if ever.
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Ronald Blythe: 1922-2023

As is clear from his writing on the poverty and exploitation then endemic in rural England, Blythe was a man of the left and a pacifist.
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Dublin’s Medieval Core

Peter Sirr
There are laws: don’t put your dung outside the door. Cattle shall not be eviscerated beside the river. Hides not to be salted in the city.
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The Trials of the Red Prince

Enda O’Doherty
The La France Insoumise movement won a creditable third place in this year’s presidential election. But with a scandal involving a possible future leader, it seems to have hit the skids.
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The Dunmanway Killings

Brian M Walker
Open-mindedness and compassion might usefully be applied to thinking around the killings of thirteen Protestant civilians in West Cork in April 1922.
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