Lia Mills writes: Kyiv is so beautiful, Victoria Amelina reflects in her posthumously published Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary, it’s no wonder Putin wants it. She also said, in a Dublin café in April 2022, that if Putin were to get what he wants and Russia steals Ukraine, she […]

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23.05.2025

Unbreakable Ukraine - DRB

Rosemary Jenkinson writes: April 23rd, 2025: This is my sixth trip to Ukraine and I’ve come to gauge the mood of the people during the US-led peace negotiations. All through the night the bus passes town squares with displays of dead soldiers in darkness. Historical buildings are barely lit, trying not to draw attention to […]

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23.05.2025

We Have History - DRB

Neasa MacErlean writes: It is only a hundred years since most leading British historians regarded Ireland as a country with no history. That was to change within a couple of decades, but those years in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s were unstable ones, and the struggle to demonstrate Ireland’s historical character took place against a […]

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23.05.2025

A ‘Red’ in St Peter’s - DRB

This blog was written before the death of Pope Francis. Michael J Farrell writes: I often wish people would ask me what’s on my mind. What I would then tell them is anyone’s guess. But if the pope were in the news, I might tell the inquiring entity about my novel, Papabile, written forty-odd years […]

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