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Welcome to the eighth annual edition of Cut&Paste: Remembering Arthur Griffith. There are several threads running through the articles. Perhaps the most dominant is that of the “Broken Column” —graphically introduced by Felix M Larkin—of lives lost too early.
Then there is the allied theme of friendships gained as with William Bulfin or strained, as Gerard Shannon writes on the increasingly fraught relationship between Griffith and Collins.
Colum Kenny concentrates on Griffith’s significant relationship with the artist Lily Williams through Griffith’s letters and her portraits of him and makes some important discoveries.
Turlough Crowe proves by algebra and the mighty pint that Arthur Griffith was the mysterious “comrade” who visited Gogarty, Joyce and Trench in the Martello Tower in Sandycove and how cycling & the backdrop of the Dublin and Wicklow mountains meant so much to Griffith—in mind and body.
Griffith’s attempts to solve the problems of Irish unionism is dealt with by Brian Maye and his far-ranging economic legacy by Donal Ó Brolcháin. Finally Des Gunning and Andrew Basquille belt out the Ballad of Arthur Griffith and the Broken Column makes yet another tragic appearance.
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