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Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...

Analysis: By the mid-13th century, the "English-Irish" had already begun to be assimilated in the native culture The question of national identity in Ireland is one which has a long and complicated ...