Ireland and Europe, A Shared History Part 4
De Gaulle in his pre-airport days Right so, welcome back to the fourth and final part of Ireland and Europe, Our Shared History – hopefully you’ve been paying attention because there’s going to be questions afterwards! Just kidding. Last week in our timeline we reached the outbreak of World War 2. During this horrid conflict, [...]
Ireland and Europe, A Shared History Part 3
Pioneering Francophile Wolfe Tone Ahoy-hoy! With just over a week to go before the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, we continue our overview of Ireland’s up to now, largely unrequited affair with the rest of Europe. Unrequited, mostly because we were locked in an abusive relationship with our nearest neighbours, the English! The closest the [...]
Ireland and Europe, A Shared History Part 2
Lord Sourpuss Oliver Wartsnall Cromwell And we are back, with Part 2 of Ireland and Europe, Our Shared Histories! Or ‘A Shared History’ or whatever. Last week we discovered how the Vikings relinquished the rape/pillaging rights of Ireland to the Normans in the 12th century. But it was also around this time that that venerable [...]
Ireland and Europe, A Shared History Part 1
As you all know by now the Lisbon Treaty referendum will take place on June 12. Whether you’re interested or not (most likely not) or whether we vote yes or no, it will undoubtedly herald another chapter in Ireland’s ongoing relationship with our European brethren. As such, maybe now is the time to cast our [...]
George Washington Was Autistic Claims Historian
Historian Chester Brant’s releases his new book George Washington, Handicapped Hero this week in the United States. It has already caused much furore due to its controversial assertion that George Washington, the revolutionary hero and America’s first President, actually suffered from autism. Washington, famed for his ‘I cannot tell a lie’ claim after he chopped [...]
People’s Republic of Cork Ranked Bottom In UN Human Rights League
In a United Nations report published on Monday, the People’s Republic of Cork was last on a list of countries ranked on their levels of adherence to human rights. Other nations with well-documented histories of human rights abuse – including Indonesia, Turkmenistan, Sudan, The Vatican and China – all featured above the PROC on this [...]
Freud’s Last Case Study ‘Bitches Ain’t Shit’ Sells For £3m At Christies
Freud: “Sometimes a phallic object is just a phallic object” Sigmund Freud, the controversial father of psychoanalysis and cocaine enthusiast, continues to ruffle the feathers of polite society some 68 years after his death – this time after the discovery of a previously unknown case study found hidden behind a wall panel in the London [...]
