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Continue reading →: Heritage Week Launched | OVER 1100 EVENTS ANNOUNCED AT LAUNCH OF NATIONAL HERITAGE WEEK EVENT GUIDE « Heritage Week
Who couldn’t do with this? Even if you don’t plan to get married anytime soon! Talk & Tea: An Eighteenth-Century Gentlewoman’s Guide to Marriage, Donegal County Museum, High Rd., Letterkenny, Co Donegal (FREE) Wednesday 25th August, 7-9pm. Talk explores the way in which love and marriage were dealt with during…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | Dublin Life in 1597: Gunpowder,Explosions and Strikes. « Irish History Podcast
Fantastic post today from Irish History Podcast on a little known explosion that ripped apart a large portion of Dublin city in the 16th Century: It didn’t take a genius to figure out what caused the explosion itself. That week a shipment of gunpowder had arrived in the city and…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | 'Remembering'- the city's involvement in World War I – Londonderry Today
Sounds like a fascinating book this! In Londonderry, as in many other parts of the country, economic necessity as much as a sense of loyalty may well have been a factor in so many men from both the Protestant and Catholic traditions heading for the various battlefields of Europe. In…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The Tyranny of the New – Page 1 – Art+Books – Los Angeles – LA Weekly
Great article that starts as a fighting critique of Bill Clegg’s Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man then progresses toaddress some of the ills of the book publishing industry. The book industry’s latest-is-best attitude seems out-of-kilter with our literary aesthetics. In 1939 Ezra Pound wrote that “literature is…
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