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In 1968, after working in Ethiopia, journalist Dennis Kennedy returned with his wife and children, not to his native North but to Dublin. Square Peg: The Life and the Times of a Northern Newspaperman South of the Border is an account of how a Northern Irish Protestant lived for twenty years in the isolated, almost entirely Catholic village of Glencullen, and worked for most of those for The Irish Times, ending up as deputy editor. Personal encounters with politicians such as Lynch, FitzGerald, and Haughey are detailed along with descriptions of the internal politics of The Irish Times, including the editorships of Douglas Gageby and Fergus Pyle and the role of Major McDowell. Square Peg is not another history of The Irish Times, nor is it a weighty analysis of Ireland and its problems but is rather an anecdotal account of a journalist trying to cope with the eccentricities of his colleagues, the politicians and the Glencullen weather.
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