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Mentioned in……Twitter? Facebook? RSS?
In times past, well in reality in past conflicts, a soldier whose actions merited serious some recognition by his home countrymen and women could be Mentioned in Despatches. This tradition arose...
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Incorruptible & Everlasting: A History of Batman
While not a traditional military history topic, my recent lecture on the history of Batman to an Cumann Staire (NUI Galway History Society) is still an interesting read. Not just for those of you...
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He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice….
http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Dublin-Castle-and-the-Anglo-Irish-War–Counter-Insurgency-and-Conflict1-4438-1392-3.htm Just to let those looking for Christmas gifts know, that my book on British...
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History in the making
New Water Meter Covers on the Ballinacurra Road, Limerick TO regular followers of my blog I apologise and issue the following disclaimer: this post has NOTHING to do with military history. At least...
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‘The Irish Are Delusional’: British Cabinet Papers & Anglo-Irish Treaty
The British Imperial War Cabinet, Downing Street gardens In the Republic of Ireland there is a school of thought that quite often prevails in some circles; namely, that Michael Collins ‘sold-out’ the...
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‘The Irish Are Delusional’: British Cabinet Papers & Anglo-Irish Treaty
‘The Irish Are Delusional’: British Cabinet Papers & Anglo-Irish Treaty.Filed under: Uncategorized
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British Government in favour of WMD…..sort of….
A recent examination of old cabinet papers and memoranda associated with the David Lloyd George ministry has shown me that not only did the British Government posses significant stockpiles of...
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Hark the Herald…..A Harbinger of the Troubles to Come
http://www.broncle.com/bronclepics In the early 1920s the British Government were beginning to get rather desperate. Ireland was disintegrating, the ironclad control of the province which previous...
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Keeping it in the Family
Medal awarded to Private Mike McAuliffe, Royal Irish Fusiliers during the Great War Recently an article was published in a leading Irish Sunday newspaper. It wasn’t an article about the shenanigans...
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Running with the Crows
Running with the Crows ‘Running with the Crows: The Life and Death of a Black and Tan’ is the fascinating tale of Temporary Constable William Mitchell. The book was written by author and historian DJ...
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Hotel where warfare changed forever
Hotel where warfare changed forever http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25109879Filed under: Uncategorized
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Deported by Stalin to Central Asia
Deported by Stalin to Central Asia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26271733Filed under: Uncategorized
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Remembering Japan’s kamikaze pilots
Remembering Japan’s kamikaze pilots http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26256048Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: atomic, Hiroshima, Japan, kamikaze, Nagasaki, nanking, Okinawa, pilot, second, us,...
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Irish History Students’ Association Annual Conference 2014
Standing Officer: “Between Ourselves Sir, there’ll be trouble with this Territorial Captain. He’s Insufferable!”Seated Major: “What of it? They said that of Me!”Standing Officer: Ah yes Sir, but you’re...
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Germany’s forgotten war
Germany’s forgotten war http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26368633 War service and sacrifice commemorations are a difficult business in Germany at the best of times. Commemorating the Great War can...
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Rise of the Footsoldier: A Social History of the Temporary Gentlemen of the...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/458751/Death-of-our-best-and-brightest-Eton-Rifles-may-have-been-built-for-slaughter On the 1st of March, 2014, I presented my paper entitled ‘Rise of the...
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Bread Rationing in Post-Nuclear War Belfast, 1950
Post-apocalypse bread plan reveals ignorance of nuclear bomb impact...
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Italy acts to stop Pompeii collapse
I was in the forum in Rome during the summer and I really hope the Italians are able to spend enough to shore up ruins of this standard. Italy acts to stop Pompeii collapse...
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How to Fight an Insurgency
Originally posted on Itcomesundone: How to Fight an Insurgency Indeed, you see the same phenomenon with the success or failure of resistance or insurgent movements. Interconnectivity seems to give...
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Bizarre World War I – The New Body Armor that Failed — History is Now...
http://itshistorypodcasts.com/blog/2014/3/5/bizarre-world-war-i-the-body-armor-invention-that-failed#.UxmCpb3FJiJ Brewster Body Armour This will make you smile folks! A rain or bullets!Filed under:...
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