On the 21st November 1920 events outside of the GAA brought politics into the heart of the Association when troops opened fire during a challenge football match between Dublin and Tipperary.
The GAA Museum will mark the 90th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday 1920 with a special commemorative lecture featuring Tim Pat Coogan and Dr. William Murphy, at 2pm on Saturday 20th November.
Two supplements, including contributions by Tim Pat Coogan and Diarmaid Ferriter, will be published in the Irish Independent on Wednesday and Thursday to accompany the launch of a new book by Ryan Tubridy on John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland in 1963. Extracts will reveal how a historic speech by the US President was censored by then Irish president Eamon de Valera.
On Friday 15th October, Tim Pat Coogan and fellow guests – Justine McCarthy of the Sunday Times and Mick Clifford of the Sunday Tribune – joined Pat Kenny to discuss the week’s stories.
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As part of a series of talks to coincide with The Hugh Lane Gallery’ s John Lavery: Passion and Politics exhibition, Tim Pat will be speaking on Sunday 5th September (1.30pm) on ‘Painting Politics‘. Admission free, first come first served.
Read the Irish Times report on Tim Pat’s address at the opening of the Parnell Summer School in Avondale, Co Wicklow yesterday.
“Politics is a noble profession but the ignoble have taken control of it… we didn’t hear enough from the media about the great storm that was approaching. A climate of corruption was allowed to prosper”.
Now in its 20th year and running until 13th August, the 2010 Parnell Summer School is debating ‘The Role of the Media in Politics and Society’.
Mary Robinson, Michael Collins, John Hume, James Connolly and Bono will be profiled in an autumn RTÉ series that will put them in the running as Ireland’s greatest man or woman.
Tim Pat tells the Irish Times why he’s amongst those unimpressed at the key omissions, like Michael Davitt, Daniel O’Connell, James Joyce and Charles Stuart Parnell…
Tim Pat Coogan will preside over the official opening of the 2010 Parnell Summer School – ‘Gotcha! The Role of Media in Politics and Society’.
The six-day event, which is celebrating its 20th year, will take place from August 8th-13th at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow – the birthplace of politician Charles Stewart Parnell.
Sessions include: ‘Press Freedom’, ‘Corruption in Politics’, ‘History of Irish Media’, ‘Parnell and the Origins of Modern Day Press in Ireland’, and ‘Citizen Journalism and Beyond’.
An open letter to Dr Zion Evrony, Israeli ambassador to Ireland, from Tim Pat Coogan
You were kind enough to invite me to the recent reception you gave to celebrate Israel’s 62nd Independence Day, but I did not attend out of a growing sense of outrage at the treatment of the Palestinians which I have hitherto only expressed privately.
The recent acts of piracy on the high seas have, however, prompted me to write you this public letter stating why I did not attend and asking that, unless policies change, that I not be invited again. It’s a small, even you might say, trivial gesture, but, I am buoyed by the fact that boycotting played a useful role in Ireland’s history. More… »
From Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th April, the Irish Independent will publish a three-part photographic supplement covering the 1916 Rising (introduced by Diarmaid Ferriter), the War of Independence (introduced by Dr Anne Dolan) and the Civil War (introduced by Tim Pat Coogan).
“Adding up to a combined 80 pages, these historic supplements include many rarely seen pictures, printed in large format, making these three magazines particularly memorable,” says series editor John Spain.
Tim Pat reviews ‘Voices From the Grave’ by Ed Moloney for the Irish Independent…
Back in the sixties, when I was starting to research my book on the IRA, Andrew Boyd arranged that I be brought to Belfast’s Linenhall Library where I was sworn to secrecy, brought down to a locked basement wherein a locked steel box was opened and I was given access to the library’s collection of IRA documents — a few handbills and a copy of the booklet Operation Harvest, which was written by a former sub-editor colleague of mine on the Evening Press, Sean Cronin.
Such was the impact of the Special Powers Act and the state of republican documentation at the time. Consequently, as a writer committed to the principles of free speech, I must support the appearance of Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave.
But the support has to be accompanied by a health, or rather a provenance, warning.
