75 years ago: Kristallnacht - Pogromnacht: 9/10 November, 1938: Prelude to...
80 years ago: Pogromnacht: 9/10 November, 1938: Prelude to War, Prelude to Holocaust The Nazis called it Kristallnacht for their own propaganda purposes, meaning "Night of Broken Glass" but it was...
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Dev's early years and background
Éamon de Valera - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org I have included the above wikipedia link simply "pro forma" so as to get the thread up and running. What actually triggered the decision to make a thread...
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Raymond Moulton O'Brien and The Black Legion
I was browsing in a junk shop today when I came across a copy of 'Dublin The People's City. the photographs of Nevill Johnson 1952-53' and leafing through the pages came across the above photo which...
View ArticleThe Beer Hall Putsch 100 years ago today - 8/9 November 1923
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,[1][note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler,...
View ArticleShould the Government apologise for 27 deaths in Kerry in March 1923?
A bizarre weekend as no less than 3 commemorations were held at Ballyseedy, FF Saturday, SF early on Sunday, followed by the National Graves Association and the Ballyseedy Memorial Committee. I'm not...
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London in the 1940s - a different city then than now
OK change is inevitable but change for the better is one thing & change for the worse another. I can remember London back in the 50s a little bit and a lot more from the 1970s but I havn't been...
View Article11 November 1918: The Armistice on the Western Front on this day.
11 November 1918: The Armistice on the Western Front on this day. At precisely 11 O'clock in the morning the First World War came to an end on the Western Front in France and Belgium and the guns fell...
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Silent photo thread. (Contains graphic images!) (Second Thread)
Post a historical photo that means something to you, saddens you, hurts you, frightens you or angers you. Or post one that makes you feel good, motivates you, surprises you or enlightens you. And a...
View ArticleBezen Perrot and Ireland's post-WWII 'discreet asylum' policy
Bezen Perrot was Breton nationalist militia set up in early 1944 by radical elements of Breton automatist movement following attacks by the emboldened resistance, mainly Communist, in Brittany. The...
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Conor O'Brien's Historic Circumnavigation of the World (1923-25)
I bought this hardback book just before Christmas in a charity shop for €3 !!! It was published by the Collins Press in 2009 and is wonderfully illustrated. I'm reading it at the moment and just...
View ArticleAn Irish Invasion of England: Battle of Stoke Field, 1487
English strategic concerns about Ireland have been largely to do with naval matters, and defence of the Atlantic sea lanes. But at certain times, there have been real invasion concerns, too. The two...
View ArticleCould Lee Oswald have really killed JFK?
Below is a video segment from a 1967 CBS documentary which examines whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy could have fired 3 shots with his bolt action rifle in...
View ArticleNapoleon And His Battles.
209 years ago this evening Napoleon was celebrating his greatest victory at a small village in what is now the Czech Republic. At Austerlitz the combined forces of Russia and Austria were decimated by...
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New TG4 documentary tells story of the radical lesbians central to Ireland’s...
New TG4 documentary tells story of the radical lesbians central to Ireland’s fight for freedom Their history was buried for so long, but now a TV audience will get to learn about eight lesbian couples...
View ArticleIrish nationalist myths and propaganda
Most countries have a set of myths that underpin their national identity, so it's important to have the right set. Myths can be very destructive as in France's fondness for violent street protests...
View ArticleTimpeall ar an nDrochshaol
I'm starting this thread to continue a discussion from another History thread. The title is in Irish, but the posts will be in English, most of the time anyway. The idea is that it will be a forum for...
View ArticleProto-Indo-European
Proto-Indo-European(PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor language of almost all existing European languages as well as the Iranian group and Hindustani languages. There is no direct evidence of...
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The History of Cycling
Booth Bros. Cycle Depot, Upper Stephen Street. From The George Moore Collection Vol. 4 1888-1889
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Dublin from old photographs
I have had these photographs for about 15 years and originally bought them because they are of local interest to me. They were probably taken sometime in the 1930s possibly by a local photography...
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Is this Guy off his Troll/y ....?
TBH I never even heard of this fellow until recently now he seems to pop up all over the place like a lost prairie dog. He was good as a GAA pundit so I gather - maybe he should stick with it...
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