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View from the Green Room: The Broderick Talks in Waterford’s Medieval Museum focused on Garret Fitzgerald

Review The Broderick lectures at Waterford Museum of Treasures - Pat McEvoy’s View from the Green Room

THERE are words that haunt us. Words spoken by us and sometimes directed at us. And they can never be undone. On December 11, 1978, Charles J.

THE late Seventies were heady days for Cork’s Jack Lynch. With an economy-busting manifesto that combined goodies, such as the abolition of car tax, wealth tax…

CHARLES J. Haughey posed well. He always had that touch of Rodin’s “Thinker” about him. A man destined for greatness that was dreaming of the future and legacy…

WE know that spring is in the air when the daffs are in bloom and the birds are chirping and historian Eugene Broderick is in his heaven in the packed Garden…

Liam Cosgrave’s respect for the office of the President was all too evident during his years as Taoiseach. The Broderick Lectures at the Waterford Museum of…

AH! The problem of the unreliable narrator. English teachers love them but history teachers loathe them. The storyteller with an axe to grind and a vested…

WHEN the Troubles came a-calling, the South had little or no understanding of the Unionist position. In outlining the Lynch era, Dr. Broderick moves deep into…

IT’S an intriguing moment in life when you find history catching up with you. To be precise, when you find that you’re part of the historical narrative that is…