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Ant and Dec’s DNA Journey

Mar 21, 2021

archaeology, battles, buildings, genealogy, Science, television reviews

Aed Findliath, Alistair Moffat, Anthony McPartlin, Crimean War, Declan Donnelly, Dixie Carter, DNA analysis, Elizabeth Wydeville, Fermoy, First World War, Graves, High Kings of Ireland, Ireland, ITV, Jim Wilson, Kings of Connacht, Leitrim, Londonderry, Mail on Sunday, McGowans, McLauchlins, Military Medal, New York, Philadelphia, Robert Barrett, Rosslare, soldiers, Somme, Texas, Tyneside Irish regiment, Ui Briuin, United Nations, Vikings, wrestling

This programme, which has recently been repeated, began in 2017 with the duo meeting the legendary Borders historian Alistair Moffat, who just happens to be the uncle of a friend of theirs. Following DNA tests, it was revealed that McPartlin’s great-grandfather, Peter, had joined the 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade and fought at the Battle of…
RIIICHARD: A forthcoming American event

Dec 2, 2020

Events, The play’s the thing

Bruno Giraldi, drama, New York, Norman Briski, Shakespeare, Teatro Latea

This play is to be performed in a latino theatre in New York on 18th and 19th December and streamed online those evenings (EST). The dialogue is partially in Spanish, although the English part will explain a lot. The new playwright (Norman Briski) has used Shakespeare’s parody as a departure point before making it more…
William Caxton and the Birth of English Printing

Aug 18, 2015

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Anthony Woodville, Aubert, Bible, Canterbury Tales, Caxton, Edward IV, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gutenberg, Innocent VIII, J. Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library, London dialect, Margaret of Burgundy, museums, New York, printing, Richard III, Thomas Malory

It is always a pleasure to visit the sumptuous J. Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library located in the Murray Hill section of New York City. Built in 1906, designed by the esteemed architectural firm of McKim, Meade and White, it is breathtakingly beautiful as well as a unique source of medieval riches, housing one of the smallest…

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Ant and Dec’s DNA Journey

RIIICHARD: A forthcoming American event

William Caxton and the Birth of English Printing