Obituary: Conor Cruise O’Brien

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Conor Cruise O'Brien
Diplomat, politician, historian and author revered as the leading Irish intellectual of his time.
 

Conor Cruise O'Brien, who has died aged 91, was the leading Iri

His views were as variable as his career. At one time responsible for
Irish government propaganda which peddled an irredentist Republican
policy on Northern Ireland, he later became a campaigning unionist and
the bête noire of Sinn Fein and the IRA.

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