Hiram Morgan

Two’s Trouble: Double Acts in Irish History

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Barring one slip up in Celtic Park, the Republic of Ireland soccer team’s latest campaign has so far seen the shrewd marshalling of limited resources by two generals rather than one. The team’s defensive and occasionally offensive strategy underpinned by a positive psychology begs the question whether O’Neill and Keane might be the latest in the long line of famous double acts in Irish history. Only this time the focus has shifted from fighting and politicking to football and punditry. …

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Lost and Found: In Search of Owen Roe O’Neill

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Maybe you can help me with a little piece of research? Recently an authentic image of Hugh O’Neill, the great earl of Tyrone, was discovered in a fresco in the Vatican but one of his nephew Owen Roe remains elusive. His story, dying in Castle Oughter County Cavan in command of an intact Ulster army as Cromwell advanced across Ireland, is full of fanciful potential. As a successful commander in the Spanish army, Don Eugenio, as he was known, would …

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