Jim Loughran's short story, City of the Damned, follows Ireland’s most formidable rebel from the battlefield to Rome, tracing the life of a man who came close to breaking English rule.
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Lt. Col. Leslie Vernon Fitzpatrick and The Sherdils
From the Malayan campaign to the tense final days of Japanese rule in Singapore, the career of Lt Col “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, preserved in family papers, brings to light wartime stories of the Indian Army and the final years of the Raj.
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30 Commando and The Wizard War
During the race for wartime technology, Ian Fleming’s 30 Commando led Britain’s hunt for enemy intelligence as the Allied invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy gathered pace.
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Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Questors Theatre – A Review
A dark and emotionally charged production of Ghosts at the Questors Theatre.
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What is the Blood Price?
The novelist's latest is a departure from the Norman invasion, but what's the story behind it?
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Alexander the Great in the Dock
Classics for All’s latest 'moot trial' brought history’s greatest commander to the Supreme Court.
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
Was Hadrian's Wall built to keep out barbarians, or rather to demonstrate the power of Rome?
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Unionism & The Treaty
Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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Heart of Darkness: The Slave Ship Zong
The Atlantic slave trade has many gruesome tales. This tragic and brutal massacre is one of the most shameful.
Historical Heroes: Saul David on George Macdonald Fraser
Saul David, acclaimed historian of the Victorian period, recalls a meeting with the great writer.
The Murder of Jack Clinton
Myles Dungan
Jack Clinton escaped one land war in Ireland, only to came across another in Arizona in 1915.
Why the Partition of Ireland?
Charles Townshend
On the 100-year anniversary of the founding of Northern Ireland, an account of the events that led to partition in May 1921.
The Last Bastion of Europe
The epic struggle between East and West, the Umayyad Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire during the Siege of Constantinople.
The Fall of the Knights Templar: The Siege of Acre, 1291
Acre was a wealthy cosmopolitan city in 1291 when the Mamluks turned their gaze on the great port, and it would become the last stand of the Templars
Kush: The Unknown African Behemoth
Anthony Riches
Only recently have historians written of Kush, the highly advanced civilisation south of Egypt. Anthony Riches, author of River of Gold, gives a brief history.
Do the Greatest Deserve Their Sobriquet?
Dismissal of the younger generation, recently labelled avocado munching ‘snowflakes’, is not a new phenomenon.
The Very Strange Death of Alfred Loewenstein
The summer of 1928, and one of the world's richest men took his final flight.
The Bulgarian Contract: The Secret Lie That Ended the Great War
Graeme Sheppard
A new book uncovers events in Sofia at the end of World War One that had a conflict-ending impact.
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