On the forgotten revolutionary Darrell Figgis... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to A Household Name, by Peter Cunningham above.
A hundred years ago in Ireland his name was on everyone's lips. A famous dandy, a poet, a novelist, a dreamer, a member of Dáil Eireann, the confident of Arthur Griffith, a hero for the nationalist cause, he was the kind of public man who would surely be remembered forever.
But today, a century later, this once household name has long vanished from memory.
His name was Darrell Figgis....
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