The year is 1808 and Napoleon’s dominance of Europe is at its zenith. The British government seeks desperately for alternative sources of vital raw materials, especially the flax and hemp […]
Read More →‘Clontarf was too important to be left to the historians, so passed into the legend-maker’s hand’ (Gwyn Jones, A history of the Vikings [London, 1973]). ‘The men of Ireland will […]
Read More →In the last issue (HI 13.4, July/August 2005) Peter Hart stated that my views ‘are summed up in the subtitle’ of my biography of Tom Barry—IRA Freedom Fighter. Having researched […]
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