The city once known for its resplendent culture of mushairas and poets would be reduced to one strewn with bodies of the dead. From a royal capital, its status was relegated to that of a provincial town. The city recovered itself only after 1911 and more so after Independence.
Gearoid in uniform Philip O’Regan ST MARY’S Knockbeg College is to remember a former professor and politician in a talk next week. Exactly 100 years ago this…