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Irish History Compressed E-book is DRM-free

by Bruce Gaston • 11 February 2013

There’s been some controversy recently about ebooks protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) and what that allows the retailer to do with an ebook you thought you owned.* It’s not very apparent unless you search quite hard on the Amazon…

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Guinness ‘considered being English’

by Bruce Gaston • 28 December 2012

Appropriately enough for the time of year when a lot of alcohol is consumed, here’s a story about how the IRA campaign of the late 70s and early 80s nearly cost Ireland one of its best-known tipples: Brewer Guinness was…

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The Irish History Compressed ebook winter sale

by Bruce Gaston • 27 December 2012

In the tradition of Christmas sales we’ve reduced the price of the Irish History Compressed ebook[1] to £1.49 till the New Year. Apologies to those in other countries but the price is already at the lowest level Amazon will allow. “But…

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Significant dates

The Re-Introduction of Direct Rule in Northern Ireland: 24 March 1972

by Bruce Gaston • 21 December 2012

Forty years ago on this day, the British government reassumed direct control of the province of Northern Ireland, thus ending one half of an early British experiment with devolution. (The other half, the establishment of a semi-independent ‘Dominion–style’ government in…

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Reposted: The Re-Introduction of Direct Rule in Northern Ireland

by Bruce Gaston • 21 December 2012

Another reposting of material that first appeared elsewhere. This one will probably eventually find its way into Northern Irish History Compressed (planned for sometime next year). Read the article here: The Re-Introduction of Direct Rule in Northern Ireland

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The Bombardment of the Four Courts: Addendum

by Bruce Gaston • 8 December 2012

A post on the New Island Books blog has drawn my attention to recent controversy over (alleged?) British collaboration with the Free State army in the attack on the Four Courts, which I wrote about here. It’s worth clicking through…

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