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Ireland - Why it Matters to be an Island by Michael Cronin: Stirring, provocative, unashamedly cerebral (opens the original)
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âThank God weâre surrounded by water,â was the refrain of Dominic Behanâs republican ballad The Sea Around Us, which topped Irelandâs singles chart for four weeks in 1966. According to this rather more profound monograph by Trinity College Dublin professor Michael Cronin, however, Irish people have sadly forgotten the importance of being an island nation. Not only does mass air travel pollute our skies, it also allows us to visit other countries with barely a glance at the deep blue Ne
Hinterlands: Journeys through Europeâs Unfinished Frontiers â A bleak but revelatory dispatch (opens the original)
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âA great European war will come one day,â Otto von Bismarck is said to have prophesied in 1888, âall because of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.â Time was to prove Germanyâs Iron Chancellor right. But what if that same region and its neighbours are sparking international conflict all over again and the West has barely woken up to it? This is the troubling question posed in Hinterlands, a discursive blend of history, travelogue and geopolitical analysis by British journalist Ha
Alexander: God. King. Man (opens the original)
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Not content with slaughtering roughly 1 per cent of the worldâs population, Alexander the Great almost destroyed Colin Farrellâs acting career. The Dubliner seriously considered retirement after a disastrous critical response to his performance in Alexander (2004), not helped by director Oliver Stone insisting he used an Irish accent. Few were impressed by Stoneâs explanation that Hibernian tones would symbolise the Macedonian monarchâs earthiness compared to more urbane ancient Greeks.
Stealing Hitlerâs Rocket: Thoroughly engaging story of frantic race to smuggle out a V-2 (opens the original)
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On July 12th, 1944, a column of muddy Nazi soldiers in rural Poland flagged down two trucks driven by men wearing German uniforms and asked for a lift. They sat on cylinders in the back, smoking, drying out and cursing the weather. After about half an hour they jumped off, one of them quipping to their new friends: âYou carry air!â As Guy Walters observes in his moving and suspenseful book, it was âone of those moments that history would call improbable if the documents [to prove it] did n
âStructured messinessâ: How a pilot project brought four housing schemes back to nature (opens the original)
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In four housing estates across north Co Dublin, a Fingal biodiversity officer is proving that nature and new development can coexist, starting with the right blackberries. On a morning last November in Balbriggan, Ministers and council officials marked the sod-turning of more than 1,160 new homes. Ireland needs homes, nowhere more than in Fingal, where the population is set to rise 25 per cent by 2031 and 16,000 homes are planned by 2029, 90 per cent on open countryside. The transformation follo
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