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IrishCentral Contributor Dara Burke looks at the 1920 Burning of Cork City, which left "behind a legacy of destruction, courage, and the unyielding desire for freedom of the Irish people."
Fort Western lecture series continues with history author Share AUGUSTA — Award-winning historian and author Alan Taylor is to present “Freedom, Slavery, and Maine Statehood in 1820” at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, at Central Church, 20 Mission Ave. Taylor’s presentation will be the sixth of a series of lectures sponsored by Old Fort Western and the Maine Bicentennial Commission. A 1977 graduate of Colby College, Taylor received his doctorate in American History from Brandeis University in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williams...
Updated / Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021 15:00 Author Michael Gerard writes for Culture about his book Ireland's Final Rebellion and An American Dream, an epic tale spanning the 20th century, inspired by his own family's remarkable tale. The protagonist in this book is based on my own father's life and his involvement in the Tan War of 1919-1921. Daddy was an unassuming tailor, tall and straight, who always wore a shirt and tie and smoked Carroll’s cigarettes. He was fifty-seven when I saw the light as the youngest of his five children. We were a poor family amongst poor neighbors in rural Coun...