Love-in with British shuns vile history
Edmund Burke's ghost hovered over Westminster during President Higgins' landmark speech, writes John-Paul McCarthy
Conor Cruise O’Brien. Photo: Tony Gavin
John-Paul McCarthy
President Higgins' dazzling state visit to the UK involved a trade-off. In exchange for the British accepting us as equals, we would formally embrace an idea first articulated at the nadir of Anglo-Irish relations in 1989 by Roy Foster in his transformational book, Modern Ireland.
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