I won’t be around much this afternoon, as I will be working on Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day parade! So here are a few facts about St Patrick and the parades still held all over the world on March 17th. And … Continue reading The St. Patrick’s Day Thread
This week’s History Thread welcomes in the end of summer. Continue reading The History Thread Celebrates Lúnasa
This week’s History Thead is over to you. Continue reading The Emergency History Thread Nationalises The Canal
This week’s History Thread is exciting to hear what you’ve been reading, or seeing, or thinking about. Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Hands It Over To You
This week’s History Thread looks at our third (and final?) Strange Railway of Ireland! Continue reading The History Thread is Powered By Air
This week’s History Thread remembers the day after D-Day. Continue reading The Day After D-Day History Thread
The History Thread is back! What have you been reading? What have you been thinking about? Tell us here! As the long-term effects of COVID-19 become more apparent, I’ve been thinking about diseases of the lungs. The Irish Times had … Continue reading The Emergency History Thread Makes A Recovery
I was born in 1990. I was born right on one of those era-dividing lines, even though I didn’t know it at the time and wouldn’t realise it until I began studying history as a teenager in the years after … Continue reading The History Thread Stands With Ukraine
In 1880, the wider world came to the Kerry market town of Listowel with the arrival of the Limerick & Kerry Railway. Immediately thereafter, with the promise of easier access to education, a boost to tourism and a market for … Continue reading The History Thread Rides a Genuine, Bonafide, Steam-Powered Irish Monorail
In 1759, a wealthy young brewer named Arthur Guinness used his inheritance to take out a 9000-year lease, at £45 a year, on an old brewery at St James’s Gate, on the western edge of Dublin city. It was, of … Continue reading A Pint of Plain for the History Thread
Dungeon Module 7G Ho, adventurer! You have travelled many aeons to this strange new realm. Always the forces of Order press on its borders, seeking to enslave its populace to Exciting Employment Opportunities and render its riches into Year-On-Year Growth. … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E04 “Dragonfire”
Big Finish review time once more! I started these reviews because I’d slowly built up a collection of Seventh Doctor stories, but foolishly deferred to my completist side by not actually watching or listening to many of them until I … Continue reading Doctor Who (EU): Big Finish Season 24, Part 2
Season 24 Written by Malcolm KohllDirected by Chris Clough How long until something old is new again? They say the Nostalgia Cycle is between twenty and thirty years. Long enough for a generation to experience something, grow up, and then … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E03 “Delta And The Bannermen”
Big Finish review time! I started these reviews because I’d slowly built up a collection of Seventh Doctor stories, but foolishly deferred to my completist side by not actually watching or listening to them. This is my motivation for finally … Continue reading Doctor Who (EU): Big Finish Season 24, Part 1
Season 24Written by Stephen WyattDirected by Nicholas Mallet In a 2009 poll, “Paradise Towers” was voted the eighth-worst Doctor Who story of all time. In 2013 it had a burst of popularity and ascended the list a whole two places. … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E02 “Paradise Towers”
Season 24Written by Pip and Jane BakerDirected by Andrew Morgan In 1987, Doctor Who died. They just didn’t know it yet. Doctor Who was a dead show walking, an inherited legacy whose only purpose was to fill the time while … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S24E01 “Time And The Rani”
