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Connecting past and present
2015 has been a year of commemorating Columbanus, in all his aspects. Dr Rob Meens was the plenary speaker for the 29th Irish Conference of Medievalists. An expert on penance and on Columbanus, Dr Meens lectures in the department of History and Art History in the University of Utrecht.
The Irish at Gallipoli is a six-part series of podcasts by Dr Jeff Kildea, Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin in 2014.
John A. Costello is unique among Irish heads of government – he was the only one who was genuinely reluctant to take the job. Not only did he not seek the top job in Irish politics, he actively fought against taking it.
Episode 5 of Brian Schoen’s series ‘Abraham Lincoln: The Life and Death of a Statesman’ looks at the rise of the Republican Party.
Before he became Taoiseach, John A. Costello’s political career was mainly notable for two things: his role as Attorney General in introducing emergency legislation to tackle the IRA, and a notorious speech in the Dáil defending the Blueshirts and comparing them to the Nazis and Italian fascists.
