Douglas Gageby and the direction of the Irish Times

While doing some research for the Society in the British Public Record Office at Kew, I came across a document that stunned me. The British Ambassador was reporting to Whitehall that Major Thomas McDowell on behalf of the Irish Times was arranging to have the paper directed from Downing Street and abusing his then editor, Douglas Gageby, in foul mouthed, racist terms.

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