The ‘decade of centenaries’ in the longue durée

Having watched RTÉ’s two-part documentary The Hunger: the story of the Irish famine, I was struck by the sobering thought that it cast a demographic shadow well into the 1960s, within the living memory of those of us of a certain age (60 or over). In addition, many of the leaders central to Ireland’s subsequent ... Read more

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