Person: Joseph P Walshe

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Book review: The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual

Daniel Binchy, Ireland’s ambassador to the Weimer Republic, once described Adolf Hitler as a ‘harmless lunatic’ but one of the country’s most perceptive and insightful intellectuals was not fooled for long, as Ryle Dwyer notes.

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The events that set two students on their political course

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Irish diplomats used as American spies

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Our window on the world

Foreign policy mandarin who gave Ireland a key role on world stage

History tells us one thing for sure: we’re blessed with Boring Bertie

Did de Valera get it wrong in his handling of partition?

IN the past week we had posthumous pronouncements from both Judge Seán O’Leary and the late US President Gerald Ford.

Sat, 06 Jan, 2007

Let's do better than the indifference we showed during the Holocaust

The Archbishop of Armagh Seán Brady gave an interesting St Patrick's Day message recently.

Sat, 20 Mar, 2004

How one American spy’s scheming fed the myth of Irish neutrality

TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of the famous American note demanding the recall of Axis representatives from Dublin on the grounds that they supposedly posed a threat to the forthcoming Allied invasion of Europe.

Sat, 21 Feb, 2004

Dev showed them how to run a republic, but they’ve betrayed it

BY pleading the poor mouth before completing his second term as President in 1973, Eamon de Valera had his pension increased by a fraction over 475%.

Sat, 10 Jan, 2004