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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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Richard English

Richard English is professor of politics at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of Ernie O’Malley: IRA intellectual (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (Pan, 2003)

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Sinn Féin's hundredth birthday

The Irish republican party Sinn Féin is celebrating its centenary by claiming a lineage from the nationalist movement founded by Arthur Griffith on 28 November 1905. Modern politics corrupting real history? No, far more interesting, says Richard English.

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