CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN AND THE NATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION AND RECONCILIATION, 1974
By Maurice Hartigan In States of Ireland (1972), Conor Cruise O’Brien, the Labour Party’s spokesman on Northern Ireland, wrote ‘let us have a truce on commemoration until we can find something which Irishmen of both the main political and religious groupings can commemorate in peace’. Within a year he was minister for posts and telegraphs … Read more