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The Unknown Soldier
“sup? This morning Stephen’s Green, Dublin Alyson writes: Spotted from the offices of Century Ireland [‘digital newspaper and online resource for information and analysis on the critical 1913 – 1921...
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Mega Scaffold
The Stairs To Kriterion (or simply, The Stairs) – a giant scaffolding staircase designed by MVRDV leading from Stationsplein, outside the entrance of Rotterdam’s central station, to the top of the...
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Know Their Limits
MORE: “Women Are Teachable”: A 1940s Booklet to Assist Male Bosses in Supervising Their New Female Employees (Vintag) thisisnthappiness
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Hot Wheels
The Royal Enfield WD/RE (aka the ‘Flying Flea’) saw action during WW2 when it was designed to be dropped behind enemy lines via glider. This is the Pegasus 500 Classic – a remake by the original...
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Neutral Space
Sunken buses? No, silly. Folklorist Terry Fagan writes: Air Raid Shelters On Lower Gardiner Street, 1940s. I recorded some good stories of people living in the Dublin tenements during WW2. One man...
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Splendid Isolation
Private Eye. On shelves tomorrow (against considerable odds). Thanks Bernard
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Soft Corridor
From top: Flying boat Sunderland over Lough Erne in the ‘Donegal Corridor’ during the ‘Emergency’ Or pride? You decide. This Day In Irish History tweetz: This day 79 years ago – 21 February 1941 – the...
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If You Can Read This, You Are Too Close
Wonderful drone image of the #Eire 7 sign which was restored by #Dalkey Tidy Towns. There were over 80 Eire signs during #WW2 to identify to pilots where they were. Great work is being done to try...
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When Das Boot Comes In
This day 81 years ago – 3 September 1939 – between Tory Island, Co Donegal, and Rockall in the Atlantic Ocean, the SS Athenia was sunk, the first attack on a British ship by Nazi Germany. 430 of its...
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