The Young May Moon, the anthem of the RIC, echoed with sombre gaiety through the Guards Chapel on the Mall upon the eve of the month of May. Those present were aware of the deep ignominy of the event, for we had just learnt that the Embassy was not represented there, and two Garda superintendents who had intended to wear their uniforms had just received direct orders from the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, not to do so. A month […]
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The Decade of Centenaries: Game, Set and Match To The Provisional IRA
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June 6th,1944: A Day to be Remembered For Ever
On June 6th, 2017, the 73rd anniversary of the Normandy landings, as a pioneer journalist in the study of the Irish who served against the Third Reich, I made an address in Monkstown Church of Ireland Church in honour of the memory of the Irishmen and women of the allied forces in the Second World War. This is what I said. Each June, a pot of shamrock mysteriously appears in the cemetery in the little Normandy churchyard of Toufreville. It […]