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Ashes of War of Independence veteran interred in Cork

Edit The Irish Times 27 Mar 2016
John Ranelagh, an executive producer on Robert Kee’s Ireland - A Television History and the author of A Short History of Ireland said the family also believed that their father may also have been in Dublin for the Easter Rising with The O’Rahilly even though he was quite young ... “I live in Los Angeles and when I came in 2014 looking for a place to put his ashes and discovered there was a republican plot. ... John said ...     ... ....

William Ash: The cooler king

Edit BBC News 30 Aug 2015
World War Two threw up many extraordinary characters ... He was posted to Britain and flew Spitfires with 411 Squadron ... He was captured in Paris by the Gestapo and condemned to death ... Some felt it was their duty ... After the war he stayed on in Britain and seemed set to follow some of his camp comrades - like Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Tony Barber and TV presenter and historian Robert Kee - into a successful conventional career....

Bankers set a course to raise funds for charity

Edit South China Morning Post 09 Dec 2014
But the corporate high-fliers were not jetting around the world for their game. They were not even out under the sun ... Robert Kee, head of the bank's Asia-Pacific corporate services, is one of the lead golf-course designers. "The fact that we are representing and connecting all of these cities across the globe, again, is how we are trying to understand the whole corporation," Kee said ... ....

Breaking the silence on the Manchester Martyrs

Edit The Irish Times 23 Nov 2014
As a seven-year-old boy in the 1950s, Joseph O’Neill remembers his hair standing on end as he stood with his father and other members of Manchester’s Irish community for a minute’s silence on the spot where the Manchester Martyrs were executed to commemorate their sacrifice almost a century beforehand ... It is about injustice ... As the defence lawyer Roberts averred, “their intention was never to commit murder ... Historian Robert Kee wrote ... ....

Tribunal decision significant for SMEs

Edit Scoop 17 Oct 2014
The Human Rights Review Tribunal decided this week in favour of an employee’s right not to work on Saturdays for religious reasons. The decision may still be appealed but the Director of the Office of Human Rights Proceedings, Robert Kee, who represented ... ....

Paedophile victims dismayed by secrecy

Edit Stuff 14 Aug 2014
Victims of a serial paedophile are disappointed a judge's decision means their attacker's identity remains secret ... They want his identity made public so parents can keep their children safe ... The Director of Human Rights Proceedings Robert Kee was set to take the case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal this month on the man's behalf. However, the trust reached a settlement with Kee, who filed a discontinuation of the proceedings ... ....

Nigel Ryan: Editor of ITN who consolidated 'News at Ten', launched 'First Report' and put ...

Edit The Independent 23 Jul 2014
Launched as First Report in 1972, it ran for 20 minutes and was anchored by Robert Kee, who conducted lengthy interviews with the news-makers and observers ... and the unemployed, was his decision to put more female journalists on screen; Carol Barnes, Joan Thirkettle, Sarah Cullen and Sue Lloyd-Roberts became known as "Ryan's Daughters"....

Kincora abuse scandal: Now it's no longer merely a Northern Ireland nightmare

Edit Belfast Telegraph 17 Jul 2014
Like Marmite, Colin Wallace is the sort of person who evokes strong feelings in all who hear his story. Related Articles. new. [TICON-A VIDEO]. [TICON-A VIDEO]. Some have dismissed him as a black propagandist and fantasist unworthy of belief ... Since then his case has been championed by figures ranging from General Sir Peter Leng to the historian Robert Kee and MPs like Tam Dalyell and Ken Livingstone ... he said ... It is as simple as that." ... new ... ....

The top 50 BBC Two shows of all time

Edit The Daily Telegraph 18 Apr 2014
A superb 13-parter, in which the late Robert Kee attempted to separate calm truth from fractious fiction in the tangled history of this island’s relationship with its near neighbour ... This epic adaptation of Robert Graves’s novels about the ruling dynasty of ancient Rome may appear stagy to modern viewers but it wowed Seventies audiences with its combination of Grand Guignol horror and meaty emotional truth....

The Battle for Britain’s Breakfast, TV review: How the BBC won the big breakfast war

Edit The Independent 09 Apr 2014
When you think about it, breakfast television has always been full of utter insanity cleverly disguised as banalities. The sexual tension between presenters, the garish soft furnishings, Mr Motivator’s unitards... Pity in particular “the Famous Five”, aka Michael Parkinson, David Frost, Angela Rippon, Anna Ford and Robert Kee ... It should have been the other way round ... Yet it was the BBC that managed to capture a sense of morning fun ... ....

The Battle for Britain's Breakfast; The Call Centre – TV review

Edit The Guardian 09 Apr 2014
I had thought the story of breakfast TV would be really boring. I was wrong. The irrepressible Roland Rat in The Battle for Britain's Breakfast. Photograph. Peter Brooker/Rex ... Whenever a gap in my understanding appears, I just nod along and look it up later ... Then in 1980 a new ITV morning franchise was awarded to TV-am, a company fronted by the so-called Famous Five (Frost, Anna Ford, Parky, Angela Rippon and newsreader Robert Kee) ... ....

David Frost remembered by Greg Dyke

Edit The Guardian 15 Dec 2013
The former boss of TV-am recalls a broadcasting superstar whose killer interview techniques were matched by a remarkable ability to see the best in everyone he knew ... David Frost in 1964. Photograph ... Fifteen years later he pulled off his franchise trick for the second time when he brought together the "famous five" presenters [Michael Parkinson, Angela Rippon, Anna Ford and Robert Kee were the others] to win the TV-am franchise ... ....
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