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Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean
Read more: Being a Greek captive in the medieval MediterraneanI would like to introduce you to two people. The first of these was called Iohannes Glafchyrno. Glafchyrno appears in the historical record...
From the Archives – Irish University Review – ‘Albert Nobbs’, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Quare Irish Female Erotohistories
In the May 2013 issue of the Irish University Review, “Queering the Issue”, there were a number of articles on gender, identity and Queer Theory as related to Irish culture. Our featured article this week, ‘Albert Nobbs’, Ladies and Gentlemen,…
Collaborations in Space: Memories of British Space Science, 1960–1980
By Peter Sanford Peter Sanford, now retired, is known for his contributions to the development of rocket and satellite instruments, for the observations of X-rays from binary stars and galaxies. Below is an extract from his Memoir in Britain and…
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War Damage: Four Poets of the First World War
“what are the implications of [war damage] for our understanding of literary works which themselves engage with the theme of the damage inflicted by war?” Richard Price answers this as he considers how poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas…
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The Football Pitch, England and the First World War
At the start of September 1914, less than a month after the outbreak of the First World War, the Football Association (FA), issued a mandate stating that clubs should offer up their fields ‘for use as Drill Grounds’. In an…
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Doing History in the Digital World
Historians have used printed media such as books, letters, diaries, newspapers and magazines for centuries, yet now that the web has/is replacing that, the web is tomorrow’s historical resource. Relationships between historical ‘text’ sources, data and interpretation, the construction of…
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Brendan Behan – A bit of a writer
Before his tragic death by self-destructive alcoholism at age 41, Brendan Behan was a celebrated Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish. Fifty years since his death, a special issue of Irish…
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Percy Bysshe Shelley and the British National Anthem
By Alison Morgan ‘A New National Anthem’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley is probably one of his least known poems. Written in 1820, in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre, Shelley’s poem is a paean to the female queen Liberty rather…
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Literary Celebrity
Celebrity, publicity and authorship are common place in the 21st century and increasingly, authors are energetic in conveying their own celebrity rather than it simply being thrust upon them; it could be said there is an intimacy between authors and…
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A taxidermist’s working life in the 19th Century
An April article in Archives of natural history gives a fascinating insight into the life of Charles Francis Adams, a young American who prepared, stuffed and mounted the skins of birds and mammals for display. It also details the early…