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Michael O’. He has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Liberty Hall (New Island, 2021) ...

Members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army then carried it to the hearse. The funeral procession The funeral procession was led by two bands, a mounted guard and accompanying the ...

The coffin, draped in a tricolour, was surrounded in the hearse by a large number of beautiful wreaths. Mr Brugha’s death deprives Irish political life of one of its most commanding figures.