An Irishman’s Diary – Peter Geoghegan

Irishman’s Diary: TP O’Connor

By peterPosted on 14th August 2012Posted in Irish Times, PoliticsTagged An Irishman's Diary, TP O'Connor

‘HIS PEN could lay bare the bones of a book or the soul of a statesman in a few vivid lines”. These words were written in praise of the man who founded the Sun newspaper: journalist, politician and Irish nationalist, TP O’Connor. The inscription appears, etched in brass, below a bust of a hirsute O’Connor […]

An Irishman's Diary

By peterPosted on 7th January 2010Posted in Irish Times, NewsTagged An Irishman's Diary, Bishop O'Higgins, fire, Longford, St Mel's

In response to the awful fire that ripped through St Mel’s cathedral on Christmas morning I wrote this piece for An Irishman’s Diary in The Irish Times. The piece appeared 04/01/2010. ‘THE ONLY thing the town has had to be proud of is gone”. This terse comment, left on the internet forum Boards.ie, said it […]