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The Battle of Jadotville & the Battle of Britain
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Back to the regular posts: Dublin Festival of History, Eisenhower in Belfast & Arthur Griffith
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Press coverage of our 2021 Festival
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Our 2021 digital Festival has started
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A slight hiatus…
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Our 2021 Programme is here
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Censorship, port history and Cork in 1920
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The Interregnum, Alice Stopford Green & the Great Parchment Book of Waterford
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Shackleton’s sisters, First World War brides & Home School Histories
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Partition, Harry Clarke, U-Boats & the 17th century beef trade
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Partition, Helen Hooker O’Malley & Edith Somerville
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The American Civil War, the sinking of HMS Wasp & the Ulster Museum’s extraordinary collections
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A post-Easter post including the Belfast Blitz, the 1918-19 flu pandemic & the history of emotion
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Skibbereen Heritage Centre, St Patrick’s Day & wartime rugby
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‘Mr Yeats & the Beastly Coins’, old photos of Cork & the Benin Bronzes
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International Women’s Day & Limerick 100 years ago
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The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland (and some other things)
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Creative Centenaries website, the Anglo-Zulu War and Medieval pilgrimage
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A selection of interesting historical reads including ancient figs, Irish foxes, PG Wodehouse and a Troubles era television

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Festival speaker Thomas Keneally on RTE’s History Show

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Two months on…

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