Ireland
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Reputation ruined: Bruce Ismay and the Titanic disaster
Everyone’s heard of the loss of Titanic in April 1912, the world’s most famous peacetime shipping…
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Memories of McGuirk’s tea rooms, Wicklow Mountains
Little did I know when I popped into McGuirk’s tea rooms on a 1996 cycling tour…
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Liverpool Street’s war memorial and the Irish assassins
How many of the thousands of commuters who file through Liverpool Street station every day spare…
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The Queen in Ireland – friends again
This week's visit to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II was remarkable. It was the first visit…