A most telling story is that of William M. Morrison of the American Southern Presbyterian Mission. Morrison and his colleague William Shepherd were witnesses to a brutal massacre in the Kasai region. Morrison sent a report to his US headquarters, but was reminded that he ‘must observe all proper deference to the powers that be … Read more
Arthur Guinness’s youngest son, John, was commissioned as an army captain with the East India Company. He married Jane Lucretia, the widow of the John D’Esterre who was fatally wounded by Daniel O’Connell in their famous 1815 pistol duel. The eldest child of Captain John Grattan Guinness and Jane Lucretia was Henry Grattan Guinness, Harry’s … Read more
The roots of Lorraine lay in the Carolingian kingdom of Lotharingia. Divided into Upper and Lower Lorraine in the tenth century, the duchy as it was in the late medieval and early modern period was not established until it came into the possession of René of Anjou (1431–53), by which time previous Lorraine territories such … Read more
The nearest Orange lodge to Ballinamore was Corgar Loyal Orange Lodge 332, and it was there that Youell joined the Orange Institution. LOL 332 had been continually in existence since 1798, with one of the strongest historical lineages of the lodges of Leitrim. Ballinamore had been the scene of serious rioting in the early nineteenth … Read more
Neither the Irish government nor Comerford may have been aware of it, but Lt. Col. Guy Symonds was not held in high regard in British fire service circles. He had served as a gunnery officer during the First World War and was invalided home from the Italian front and given a post with the Ministry … Read more