Steven’s Notebook

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a […]

A bablefish translation of short document about Robert Brennan found at the Université de Genève. It’s rough, obviously, but gives the general idea for those of us who only read English well.
Brennan is originating in Wexford. He is a journalist. During bloody Easter of 1916, it occupies Wexford with 600 men, as a commander of […]

Backup information on Maeve Brennan, daughter of Robert Brennan. Text from Princess Grace Irish Library, copied here for family archival purposes only. Feb 2003

Life
1917-1993 [pseud. ‘The Long-Winded Lady’]; b. 6 Jan. & ed.
[Dublin,] Ireland; dg. of Robert Brennan, a participant in the Easter
Rising and later Propaganda chief of the IRA [Sinn Féin] under
Michael Collins; appt. […]

Backup information on Robert Brennan, copied without permission for archival purposes only, from
Virtual Ireland.

IRELAND STANDING FIRM & EAMON DE VALERA, A Memoir
by Robert Brennan (1881-1964)

Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a republican activist in the early years of the twentieth century, journalist and close associate of Eamon de Valera.Ireland Standing Firm […]

Backup information on Robert Brennan, copied without permission for archival purposes only, from Emigrant Online

Ireland Standing Firm & Eamon De Valera: A Memoir
By Robert Brennan
These two works are taken from articles published in the late 1950s
in the Irish Press and give a fascinating insight into 20th century
politics in Ireland from a man who was always […]

Backup information on Robert Brennan, copied without permission for archival purposes only, from the Université de Genève
This appears to be a short biography of someone with the same name, also from Wexford. If you can translate this, please let me know. (see also this rough translation, until someone comes along)

Robert Brennan
(1881-1964)
Brennan est originaire de […]

Backup information on Robert Brennan, from Robert Brennan and Maeve Brennan Papers in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library, March 2002, copied here for archival purposes only.

Biographical Note
Robert Brennan was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1881. Brennan was trained as a
surveyor and was employed in the early part of his career as […]

Backup information on Robert Brennan, from the Enniscorthy Echo, January 2000. Copied here with permission of the author, re-typed from a photocopy. Errors are likely my typos. -Steven
Admiration of Dev in Brennan’s words
Dan Walsh, In Our Time
Normally at this time of year there is the quiet post-Christmas famine in the publishing business. But like the […]

Roddy Doyle will be launching Robert Brennan’s book
in Wexford on 22nd March.
Ireland Standing Firm
and
Eamonn de Valera, a memoir
by Robert Brennan.
Editor Richard Rupp.
Published by UCD (University College Dublin Press) Dublin.
It is available for order via Amazon.co.uk.
Synopsis (from the amazon.co.uk site)
“Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a republican activist in the early years […]