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History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, chats to Irish diplomat, Jim Sharkey, who opened the Irish embassy in Moscow in 1974 and returned to live in the city as Ambassador in 2001.<br>
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This Hedge School is part of the Dublin Festival of History.</div>


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‘Our man in Moscow’—50 years of Irish/Russian diplomatic relations

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Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction?

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