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Divided still, the unfulfilled dream of the 1916 rising

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Tom Collins

There was a day when myths were the stuff of song, when they were spoken of by poets and carved in stone. Today they are printed on plastic wrappers to be thrown away as litter.

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A nation once again: Easter and the 1916 Rising

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Tom Collins

History is full of what ifs ... but we only have the history we have. Brutal, messy, contradictory history. A history where fact and fiction are intertwined, and where the heart can often rule the head.

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Obama lays Kennedy’s Cuban ghost to rest

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Tom Collins

John F Kennedy’s presidency was defined by Cuba, first in the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, then in the stand-off with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis

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Suffer the little children: Dunblane 20 years on

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Tom Collins

In every child there is the potential to be something great – a great mother or father, a great statesman or stateswoman, a great friend or companion, a great teacher, a champion.

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