Person: Robert Kee

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Letter to Editor: Our Famine genocide not suitable for ‘Spud’ satire

In 2015 plans by Irish scriptwriter Hugh Travers to develop a comedy series commissioned by Channel 4 about Ireland’s Famine drew the ire of public opinion which led to an online petition with almost 20,000 signatures expressing outrage at its apparent trivialisation.

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Book review: Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?

Is the bloody past best left buried?

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The host with the most

A union of equals as Seanad hosts historic visit

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Éire go on boy, really?

Some War of Independence leaders were just a bloody nuisance later

TODAY the Whyte’s history and literature auction of memorabilia is being held in Dublin. Ian Whyte, the managing director of the auctioneering firm, mentioned that the material had been forgotten after the Civil War.

Sat, 14 Mar, 2009

Murder case to go to third appeal

The murder conviction of a former member of the Ulster Defence Regiment was today referred back to the Court of Appeal in the North for a third time.

Tue, 15 May, 2001