Notes on a lecture – my notes and illustrations on John Lavery’s painting of High Treason, the trial, and appeal of Roger Casement against his sentence of death.
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Trying to organise the Youth Opportunities programme in Nottingham
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When I wer a lad in Gibraltar – big guns and big aeroplanes
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De Profundis compared – two Edinburgh Festival productions compared.
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The Wise and Foolish Wicklow Virgins – discovering Irish murals in an Edinburgh Church
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Traffic Warden Hancock: the tale of a real Nottingham character
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Going Home: The return to Ireland of the remains of Roger Casement
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A child of the Army of the Rhine: growing up in Germany as a child of a British soldier.
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I could have been Mr. Universe – how I never made it as a tough guy
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The Bus Pass – using my bus pass for the first time.
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Fifty yards of Florence – pure magic of the Renaissance
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Four days in North Yorkshire – a break in the Dales
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Three cities and three Airbnb’s – Italy
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With his long hair and Gentle ways – a note on the 1st anniversary of Gavan’s passing.
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I ran over the cat – hiding the truth from my young son
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Forward to Mike O’Donnell’s poem/play, Roger Casement’s 1916
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A Chinese Banquet with the Chinese Ambassador
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Twinkle Egan, the Barrister, remembered
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Peter McGuiggan and C battery 78 Bde in world war
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In Flanders Fields – translated into Irish
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Artistic approaches to the Forth Railway Bridge
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Veiled by Lee Guk HyunA recently purchased disturbing painting
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Dinner at the House of the Dead
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You will grow to hate Dublin Taxis
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On being a boy in 1950’s Gibraltar: Fond memories of being the son of a soldier
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Revenge and the Winter of Discontent: Getting my own back on a brutal headmaster at my Nottinghamshire Primary School
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Joining up: Joining the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as a Junior Leader–
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Borneo – a clean war? With the Laundry and Bath Unit at war
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The Fleshpots of Singapore A soldiers view of the bars and brothel’s of Singapore
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A Cinema experience in Borneo A military cinema in the jungles of Borneo
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With the Americans in Thailand – 1960’s a brief posting to an American Air Base involved in the Vietnam War.
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The Little sods from the 1st Monchen Gladbach Scout troop
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Upon being an Exhibit of Bueys (A Ruskin experience)
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Queens School Rheindalen and the Profumo affair
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Buying Thatchers Family Home for the Working Class
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Native servants (A reflection on native servants)
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Oxford Book Shop Strike (Blackwells)
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Being arrested on the Bingham Toot Hill school picket line
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Miners Strike – Nottingham – 1984
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The Black guy who took on Nottingham City CouncilNottingham s first public sector racial discrimination case
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Training to be a Military photographer with the Royal Navy:
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The Loyal Toast – Polish General SiKorski
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Winter of Discontent and the Nottingham Shirehall: A strike story from the winter of discontent 1978/79
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On being in Norway as a Military Photographer: Adventures with a camera in Norway
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White women: The Kiss of a Lance Corporal – Singapore
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A Corkman dies on the Somme: One of the most powerful condolence letters ever written from the front line of the Great War
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Execution in the Dublin Rising: The story of the Sherwood Forester’s soldiers who carried out the execution of the Easter Rising leaders
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The Oath of Treason
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The lost memorials of a fallen soldier – Dublin GPO 1916.
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Coffee morning talk on Sir John Lavery’s painting of Roger Casement on trial for High Treason
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The Fourcourts in the 1916 Rising
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The English soldiers who came to crush the 1916 Rising
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The M. & S. Wimereux French biscuit tin and the great war
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Notes on a lecture about Roger Casement
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n some forgotten corner of a foreign field – British military dead in Ireland 1916
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Easter week, from the Salopian School magazine,1916
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Nevil Schute and Easter week in Dublin
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An Intelligence Index card from the Irish War of Independence
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The Road to the Rising – an RTE lecture at the Fourcourts.
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Age-related macular degeneration and me
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Review of Roger Casement Biography; Jeffrey Dudgeon’s definitive biography of Casement
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Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – a review of his book on Casement
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Blood on the Streets by Paul O’Brien – a review
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The Last Slave Market by Alistair Hazell – a review
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Review of Irish Peacock and the Scarlet Marquess
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Review of the Curragh Mutiny by Paul O’Brien
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Revview of Crossfire – the 1916 battle for the Fourcourts by Paul O’Brien
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Pinterest could be for you! – An icredible story of U boats, sinking, rescue and return
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Aye Elvis – a review of the glorious Elvis show from Aberdeen
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A Letter to BBC’s Feedback – a spoof complaint about a terrible comedy programme
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Tess of the D’Ubervilles – a vivid retelling of the tale by Steve Larkin at the Edinburgh Festival
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An Edinburgh Festival Diary – (with apologies to Samuel Pepys)
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Peploe Exhibition at St. Andrews
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Barry Humphries and the Weimer Caberet
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Private Peaceful – a review of Michael Morpurgo’s plat at the Edinburgh Festival
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Joyced in Edinburgh A review of Joyced, a one person view of Ulysses
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French Sleazebag Nailed on the Stage. A review of the Presidential Suite at the Edinburgh Fringe, the story of Dominique Strauss Kahn
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Adolf at the Fringe – A review
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CLINTON THE MUSICAL – a review
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Ruskin at the Edinburgh Fringe – a review of a performance of Ruskin’s Edinburgh lectures
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – a review
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You all Know Me – I’m Jack Ruby – Edinburgh Fringe Review
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Kierkegaard – the comedy for philosophers
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Titus Andronicus at the Edinburgh Fringe
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A review of the play -Deepcut- four soldiers shot themselves with their own weapons at this military training depot
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Titus Andronicus with an all-female cast
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Dermot Bolger’s adaptation for the stage of Ulysses
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A Braw Bricht ShowReview of Tam O’Shanter at Edinburgh Fringe
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History of the Jazz Piano at the Edinburgh Fringe – a review
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Picasso and Modern British Art at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
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Scottish Portrait Gallery and the war paintings of Lavery
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