An ‘Independence Day’ for Ireland?

By Dennis Kennedy In this crowded decade of centenaries, are there any plans for an Independence Day? I mean a celebration of 100 years of a self-governing Irish state—the real thing, not the mythical Republic of 1916. How about 16 January, the day in 1922 when His Majesty’s lord lieutenant formally handed over Dublin Castle ... Read more

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