In the year that Wicklow got its first Taoiseach, the theme of the Parnell Society symposium is set to be ‘parliamentary tradition’, as another great political leader from the county is due to be remembered.
A few weeks ago, I gave a talk to the Daniel O’Connell summer school in Cahersiveen on the theme of challenges facing Ireland today. Notwithstanding the incongruity of a summer school in late October