Nov 16, 2025
Also known as ‘The Angel of the Delta’ and ‘The Bread Woman,’ Margaret Haughery of Leitrim was one of the most astounding characters to emerge from the Deep South during the long 19th century. Her role in helping orphans was immense because New Orleans had an awful...
Sep 28, 2025
See here for more stories of County Laois. On Saturday 27 September 2025, Seamus Raben and I visited Bellegrove House near Ballybrittas in County Laois. Also known as Rathdaire House, this glorious ruin was once home to the notorious “Black Jack” Adaire. As we...
Jul 29, 2025
Return to Contents of 1847 Athens, Greece, Sunday 4 April 1847. On Easter Sunday 1847, a mob attacked the Athens home of David Pacifico, a Jewish British subject, who they blamed for a ban on the traditional burning of an effigy of Judas Iscariot during Easter....
Jul 19, 2025
Contents: The Glorious Madness – The Irish and the First World War. Ireland has a curious link to Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (1890–1986), the most successful Austro-Hungarian naval pilot of the First World War. Known as the ‘Eagle of Trieste‘, he descended...
Jul 11, 2025
Between 1209 and 1230, the Roman Catholic church orchestrated a crusade into southern France to exterminate a renegade Christian belief system known as Catharism or the Albigensian heresy. Approximately one million people are said to have died in the war. I...
