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Posted on May 26, 2019

France’s last duel – on YouTube!

  France’s last official dueltook place in 1967 between two French parliamentarians; Gaston Defferre, Mayor of Marseilles and newspaper owner, who shouted “Taissez-vous, abruti!” (Shut it, moron!) at Gaullist deputy…

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Posted on March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

Happy 91st Birthday Jim Lovell Apollo 13 Mission Commander

Today Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and, along with his fellow astronauts Jack Swigart and Fred Haise the human who has been furthest from Earth, is 91. Like…

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Posted on January 8, 2019

Geoffrey Langlands RIP: major, Dieppe Raid survivor, educationalist, 97 year old coup leader

I had never heard of Geoffrey Langlands, who has died in Lahore aged 101, until coming across his death on Wikipedia’s Recent Deaths page.  His Wikipedia page has been subjected to a…

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Posted on November 25, 2018November 25, 2018

Ricky Jay RIP

Ricky Jay, scholar of magic and mountebanks, “the greatest sleight of hand artist of his generation”, has died Here is a 1993 New Yorker profile of this extraordinary man. It…

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Posted on October 24, 2018October 24, 2018

Long Way Round Fundraising 15 k Night Walk/Run for South East Mountain Rescue, 24th November

Head torches at the ready, this sounds like a blast .. and for a worthy cause: Long Way Round Our fundraising 15 Km night walk /run for SEMRA takes place…

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Posted on August 1, 2018July 28, 2018

August in the first Antarctic Night

Through the First Antarctic Night”,  or to give it’s full title, “Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and…

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Posted on July 30, 2018July 26, 2018

“The Driver”, winner of Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award 2010

It was a privilege to receive this award in 2010 in Lismore, via the auspices of Waterford County Council, and to hear the kind words from Molly Keane’s daughter at…

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Posted on January 17, 2018

Peter Reason on pilgrimage, ecology and in-between space.

From “In Search of Grace”: “In modern times, the idea of pilgrimage falls within so many cultural and spiritual traditions that it holds no single meaning. However, it usually entails…

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