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This year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Cathal Brugha. Brugha was a tireless and devoted activist for Irish republicanism across various spheres including: as an Irish language activist in the Gaelic League, a key organiser for both the Irish Volunteers and Sinn Féin, Minister for Defence in the underground Dáil government from 1919-21, and a leading public opponent of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Historian Gerard Shannon discusses Brugha in the appropriate environs of the Mansion House, where Brugha, as Dáil Éireann’s first Ceann Comhairle, affirmed the Irish Republic’s independence.

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