Calling fellow historians

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attention please pun GIF

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Give me “The Mother” any day

I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing,
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho’ I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow - And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.

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Twould have been only natural for the Basques to end up here really, just walking along the coast

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Nice map, if somewhat speculative

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And all the deviants from Doggerland settled in Cork

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@ciarancareyshurlingarmy @Julio_Geordio @Thomas_Brady

Free access to this newspaper archive to celebrate the jubilee. Already found one potentially very interesting story from my families murky past :grimacing:

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Are you a palatine?

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An interesting programme events in Askeaton this weekend to commerate the 500 year anniversary of the Desmond-Valois Treaty. The first treaty between Ireland & France, which was signed in Askeaton castle.

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Can anyone recommend a stand alone podcast (about an hour) on D-Day?

‘The rest is history’ and ‘a short history of’ don’t have it covered

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I don’t know of any podcast on it off the top of my head. Anthony Beevor has a typically detailed tome on it. You wouldn’t even scratch the surface of D-Day in an hour I’d say.

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Too late now, all I wanted was a ‘short history of…’ version
You’d do it in an hour no problem

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It’s the morning of June 6th, 1944.

Solider James Thompson nervously holds his rifle as his small boat rocks from side to side…

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Yip, nuts and bolts job,

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… wishing he was back home in the safety of the wide-open Canadian prairies.

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Your best bet is to watch the Longest Day when you come back. It’s very historically accurate. Or you could read the book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan.

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I found this on IPTV but it is the one with no sub titles so turned it off.

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Those fucking American podcasts would wreck your head. Everything has to have a personal story in it. Just tell me info and fuck off.

I like the business wars pod but it absolutely ruins it when start making up conversations between people to fill up time.

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Thr JFK podcast on the rest is histpry is unrealable

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About eight episodes isn’t it? Very good alright. I’m on #5 I think.

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