restored

I lost my password, I was locked out for months

The anniversary of Easter week, has come and gone

Churchill in Belfast 1912

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/watch-rare-footage-of-winston-churchills-visit-to-ireland-in-1912-to-argue-in-favour-of-home-rule-31366891.html

Pathe newsreel

Churchill flip flopped on Irish matters

Peruvian war of independence

I visited the Casaohiggins in Lima yesterday

Recreation of patriot force uniform

Study of a battle, between royalist and patriot forces

Copy of sword and map of O Higgins

Earth from several battlegrounds

Finally the bedroom of O'Higgins

The Treaty debates in the border counties

http://www.theirishstory.com/2014/12/12/we-must-forgive-but-we-wont-forget-the-treaty-debates-in-the-border-counties/#.VIsPzX888vl

Cavan and Monghan are historically part of Ulster.

Caves and the war of independence

http://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/local-news/leitrim-caves-and-the-war-of-independence-1-6375750

I wonder would  they have been used if the war had spread to Eire in WW2

Anniversary of 1916 approaches

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/unease-grows-over-easter-rising-commemorations-1.1969232

There is a lively discussion in the Republic about the event

may 2016
The British royals , American President did not attend. My parents did make it Dublin

W.T Cosgrave

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/wt-cosgrave-the-simple-life-of-a-state-s-architect-1.1967444

First Prime minister of the Irish free state. Forever remembered for wearing a top hat to Buckingam Palace