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Thomas Meagher, Forgotten Father of Thomas Francis Meagher (Irish Academic Press) THE first thing that strikes you when lifting up this biography of Thomas Meagher is the title. The author feels the need to explain his subject by referencing him to his more illustrious son, the charismatic Young Ireland leader whose star shone and fell over a relatively short period in the politically charged 1840s in Ireland, but whose name lives on today. The father, on the other hand, was a political activist for more than 40 years. An ardent O’Connellite he helped shape political nationalism in the dec...

No mortal being knows tomorrow as well as he knows yesterday, but that doesn’t stop very many from ...

Eugene Broderick’s latest book, ‘Thomas Meagher: Forgotten Father of Thomas Francis Meagher’ was launched at both the Large Room and, subsequently…

The gatehouse at 73 Woodberry Way Did you know the man described as the ‘Forgotten Father of English Sport’ lived for a time in Chingford? Charles William Alcock lived with his parents and siblings at Sunnyside, now long gone apart from its former gatehouse at 73, Woodberry Way. His father was a successful ship owner, later ship broker and in the mid 1850s moved the family south from Sunderland to Chingford. Six years after relocating his father also called Charles bought 40 acres of meadow land, which included Park Hill Farm and extended down King’s Head Hill. Charles Junior wa...

Did you know the man described as the ‘Forgotten Father of English Sport’ lived for a time in Chingford?