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April 20, 2016
Album review – GORILLA & GRIFTER ‘Gorilla vs Grifter’
This isa first for me: reviewing a split album, meaning two bands sharing the same release. In this case, the pairing is the stuff that heavy, gritty and loudrock and roll dreams are made of, smooshing togetherGorilla and Grifter, two powerful British bands. Together, they bringsome seriously rowdy, gritty, and roughed up rock.
I reviewed Grifter’s album ‘The Bearded Brethren’ last year (read my review), and was impressed by the band back then, but Gorilla was a new acquaintanc...
A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
by Helen Breen Some things never change. In the midst of the inflammatory rhetoric of the 2016 American Presidential campaign, let us pause and reflect on the simpler, but no less acrimonious, poli…
Source: A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
April 19, 2016
The Famine Irish: Emigration and The Great Hunger
Irish in the American Civil War
Back in 2013 I was privileged to speak at the Third Annual International Famine Conference at Strokestown Park House, Co. Roscommon. The theme of the event wasThe Famine Irish: Emigration and New Lives, and it was an excellent couple of days. The focus of my paper was to examine the impact of the American Civil War on female Famine survivors, something I sought to achieve largely through the Widows & Dependent Pension Files. Following an invitation to work the...
A Family at War
Charlie Weston is the foremost personal finance journalist in Ireland. I’m also proud to say that he is a very good friend. In this article for the Irish Independent, he explains the extraordinary place his family holds in the history of the 1916 Rising. Alas, a hundred years later, things have “changed utterly”, as Yeats would say. Right now, we are celebrating the unifying forces that brought people together to fight for freedom, yet our own political parties can ‘t uni te...
“Rasa” (Excerpt) | Alonzo King Lines Ballet….
Rasa
2007
Choreography: Alonzo King
Music: Zakir Hussain with performance by Kala Ramnath
Dancer: Laurel Keen and Brett Conway
Costumes: Robert Rosenwasser
This duet is from Rasa, a deeply evocative and shimmering piece, set to an original score by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, which was called “an intriguing wonder” by the New York Times. Zakir Hussain’s mastery of classical Indian percussion and unique vision of world music have brought him worldwide renown, including a G...
Regency Personalities Series-Granville Harcourt-Vernon
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Granville Harcourt-Vernon
26 July 1792 – 8 December 1879
Granville Harcourt-Vernon was the sixth son of the Most Reverend Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York, third son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon. His mother was Lady Anne, daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford. Wi...
April 18, 2016
Remember to be nice
I have experienced very often through the people i have met that many of us are either arrogant or too proud with a feeling of being untouchable. But it kept me wondering if those people have ever realized that if they are a master today, undoubtedly they were once a beginner and they made mistakes too.
It’s as if they have erased this part of their lives from their memories. Fact is we should always remember that no man is an island, we are all here to connect and i...
Christopher Alan Broadstone – Author
I met an author of horror on twitter and have just started reading his novel PUZZLEMAN. So I wanted to post a blog on him and when I finish the book I will post a review. So I introduce Christopher Alan Broadstone to you.
Author Bio: Christopher Alan Broadstone Christopher Alan Broadstone is the author of the horror novel PUZZLEMAN. A re-release of the novel and serialization of the book (with updates) is now available for Kindle and in Trade Paperback. Broadstone’s newest short story,NOTE-T...
The 34th Regiment of Foot in Gibraltar and Jamaica during the early 1700s
Our biography of Grace Dalrymple Elliott (An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott) reveals her maternal grandfather to be Colonel Robert Brown.
In March 1727 he was a Captain in the 34th Regiment of Foot who were sent out as reinforcements to relieve the Siege of Gibraltar (the Spaniards were holding siege to the British fort there) and following the successful conclusion of that, to garrison the island of Gibraltar. Offi...
April 12, 2016
Bradley Long Cairn, Farnhill, North Yorkshire
Bradley Long Cairn, near Farnhill, north Yorkshire.
OS grid reference:SE 0092 4756. At the north-eastern side of Bradley Low Moor, near Farnhill, innorth Yorkshire,is the Bradley Long Cairn, which isalso known as ‘Bradley Long Barrow’ and sometimes ‘Black Hill Long Cairn’. Now, sadly, it isa large pile of stones andan uncovered oblong-shaped cist grave that has suffered from much disturbance over the years, andmaybe robbery in some shape or form. Some 40m to the...
