This is actually from a call for papers for an academic conference on Austrian travel writing, but I found it pretty funny: On 24 February 1879, Empress Elizabeth of Austria (‘Sisi’), participating in a stag hunt out of Summerhill House,…
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Forthcoming: Σύντομη Ιστορία της Ιρλανδίας
The Greek translation of the Irish History Compressed e-book will be available within the next week or two from all the usual outlets. Όντας μία σύντομη εξιστόρηση των σημαντικότερων γεγονότων στην Ιστορία της Ιρλανδίας από την αρχαιότητα μέχρι τον 21ο…
Irish History Compressed’s Most Popular Posts of 2017
It’s been fairly quiet on the blogging front this year (I have been working on a looong article, but it’s still not finished) so I’ll confine this list to a top three: Fake Irish News Review of Unapproved Routes by…
Irish History Compressed’s Most Popular Posts Of 2015
Here they are, the most read blog posts of the past year: Loyalist paramilitaries The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham A Beginner’s Guide to the Gallipoli Campaign A Short History of Ireland in Spanish and Portuguese The…
The Irish and Latin America
This post was inspired by, and is in honour of, my translators into Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (neither of whom, as far as I know, have Irish ancestry). [Edit 7/9/2015: I stand corrected. “Dowling” is an anglicised version of a…
Loyalist paramilitaries:
An overview
In the Troubles loyalists killed 990 people; 708 simply because they were Catholics.1 The question is “Why?” Main Groupings The two most important and longest-established loyalist terrorist groups are: Ulster Volunteer Force founded in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the…
“Scots should recall the poverty of the Irish Free State” – FT.com
I’d just been rereading this review of John M. Regan’s book Myth and the Irish State, which in reviewer John Dorney’s words “warns of the dangers of history being contorted to serve the agendas of the present”. And then I…
Free E-Book on Irish History
For St Patrick’s Day only, you can download the Irish History Compressed e-book absolutely free using the coupon code KQ89Z. Get it here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/311082 And if you do read it and like it, please think about posting a review to…
Significant Commas in Irish History
As well as teaching about Irish history, I teach English language and grammar, especially the written variety, which a lot of the time seems to mean teaching commas: where to put one, where not to put one, and why it…
Claim token
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