Posts Tagged ‘British’
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How the Church Lost Ireland
Posted on May 27, 2015
More than three centuries after Christ died, St. Patrick came to Ireland and converted the pagans to Christianity. The Erin Island is the furthest Western outpost of Europe (not counting...
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The Scottish Divorce
Posted on September 18, 2014
Amid the bloodshed of the First World War, as the people of Ireland prepared to celebrate the holiest of Christian holidays, a small band of Irishmen embarked on a seemingly...
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The Transformation of Ourselves Alone and What It Means for US
Posted on August 15, 2014
Sinn Fein is gaining popularity in the Republic of Ireland, and it has nothing to do with the original purpose of the political arm of the IRA. And that is...
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Fantasy and Reality
Posted on April 29, 2011
When you come back from vacation, reality crashes into fantasy roughly. Watching the first kiss between Will and Kate (which I couldn’t escape even though I tried), I saw the...
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The Zenger Legacy
Posted on February 2, 2011
In 1733, the newly appointed colonial Governor, William Cosby, charged John Peter Zenger, a publisher based in New York, with scandalous libel. In one of the most important legal cases...
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