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From the archives: November 3rd, 1911Home Rule for Ireland was widely accepted as a certainty within a few years in 1911, in spite of concerns about its finances, as the British government spent more in Ireland than it received in revenues and further spending was likely as national insurance was being introduced. In a speech to a business audience in the City of London, Nationalist leader John Redmond avoided all the hard questions of the day but ended with this rhetorical flourish. – JOE JOYCE
November 2nd, 1965FROM THE ARCHIVES: The premiere of John B. Keane’s play, The Field , was staged in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 1965 but the reasons for its success with audiences were not immediately apparent to the anonymous Irish Times critic who signed him or herself JJ. – JOE JOYCE