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A to K of Historical Blunders
- Agincourt to Passchendaele - a very muddy business
- Bourgeoisie - Don't mess with them
- There are no certainties in Ciphers
- Duelling; not a good idea if you happen to be a genius.
- Egotism is egregious if it’s your only weapon for election
- A police force that scores an F
- Gallileo, green eggs and ‘German’ science
- World peace yet again threatened by hubris
- Itchy feet - restless Vikings and Normans; ignore them at your peril
- Jumping the gun
- Applying the Karenina principle to Ireland’s fight for freedom
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L to R of Historical Blunders
- Language and literature make history, for better or for worse
- Medieval mindset is the mother of all misogyny
- Neo-liberalism, non-interference and laissez-faire in the Great Irish Famine
- The O's have it
- Plantations and Penal Laws leave a shadowy legacy
- The questionable majesty of queenship
- Revolting media
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S to Z of Historical Blunders
- The inseparability of sugar and slavery
- The only two certainties in life; taxes and death
- The unsustainability of unaccountability
- The vagaries of voting
- The workhouse – an unworkable solution to Irish poverty
- Xenophobia; it just won’t go away
- Can you separate a work of literature from the political beliefs of the author?
- Zero tolerance of printed matter that makes you think
- Frankly Blank Verse news
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Reviews
- Paradise re-visited
- Looking Death in the Eye
- Meet the Quare Fellow
- Handbook of the Irish Revival
- Young Irelanders. Edited by Dave Lordan. Stories 1-4
- Young Irelanders. Edited by Dave Lordan. Stories 5-8
- Young Irelanders. Edited by Dave Lordan. Stories 9-12
- The Unexpected Professor; An Oxford Life in Books
- Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful
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Curmudgeonly Comment
- A tandem of post-modernism on the R827
- Beans on toast or Ortolan?
- Go on, do the decent thing
- Textbook Saint Patrick – Myles from the truth
- The saintly business of naming your child
- The Glass Menagerie that Limits Women’s Career Prospects in the Groves of Academe
- Las Vegas wasted on me
- School in the swinging sixties
- Sunday Miscellany 2002-2003
- Quiet Quarter
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Whimsical
- Bhí scamaill móra dubha ag dul treasna na speire
- My Great Granny fought in the GPO
- You Gave me Books
- Gentlemen Dredgers
- Tory Island
- Horrific nocturnal violations, or, exam season flashbacks
- Dust Jacket Coward
- A Board Childhood
- Organising races is best left to humans; taking minutes is best left to secretaries
- The 16 bus magical history tour - Grange Road to O’Connell Street - 1976
- Memories jolted in an empty doctor’s waiting room
- Medieval Madness
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