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Historical Memory | Law | Politics | Sport | Travel | Hiking | Culture | Curious….. (Co-author of new book, The Irish in the Resistance…)

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DROPPING SUNDAY 🎙️

A two-part podcast!

1) @jervisevans.bsky.social joins me to discuss the Basque child refugees to Britain who went on to play professionally. Taster below 👇🏼

2) My talk on football against fascism from last week

📸 Basque Children of 37 Association

15.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Limerick History Festival: People’s Museum, 2 Pery Square, 27 Sept @ 2pm
#WW2 #IrishInTheResistance

23.09.2025 21:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Born #Onthisday 1894 Monica Wichfeld who was raised in #Fermanagh. Later she was a leading member of the Danish resistance during t#WW2 & was the 1st woman in Denmark to receive a capital sentence for resistance against the Nazis -she died in Waldheim Prison in 1945
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social

12.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Mickey McConnell- 'Though You Won't Remember Me, I'll Remember You.' Patrick O'Keeffe Festival
YouTube video by Patrick O'Keeffe Traditional Music Festival Mickey McConnell- 'Though You Won't Remember Me, I'll Remember You.' Patrick O'Keeffe Festival

RIP Mickey Mac Connell, singer/songwriter from Bellnaleck, Co Fermanagh, writer of Only Our Rivers Run Free, Peter Pan & Me, Lambeg Drummer, Supermarket Wine and possibly best of all, Though You Won’t Remember Me, I’ll Remember You…
youtu.be/Q2FuwvZcVxo?...

03.07.2025 21:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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27.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Basque and Irish: Sporting the Scars of History History and stories. Love of place and identity.

medium.com/p/512884bcce87

17.04.2025 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Meet the Irish women of Ravensbrück concentration camp | Ireland.ie Ravensbrück was the largest women’s concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Learn the stories of 5 Irish women involved in resistance efforts were imprisoned there.

During WWII, five Irish women were imprisoned in Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi concentration camp for women, for their acts of bravery in the resistance across Europe.

www.ireland.ie/en/germany/t...

21.03.2025 10:11 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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New Book Highlights Irish Women's Role in the Resistance


A recently published book, The Irish in the Resistance: The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler, sheds light on the overlooked contributions of Irish nuns in the anti-fascist resistance during World
bit.ly/4aFlprg

30.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Irish nuns were active in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II "They acted on their wits; I am just so full of admiration for them. They knew what was ahead: arrest, torture and deportation, execution. The risks were enormous," said Clodagh Finn, author of The Ir...

Irish nuns were active in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II, journalist and author @clodaghfinn.bsky.social tells @sistersreport.bsky.social Read more here: bit.ly/4gj6wMx #WorldWarII #Resistance #Irishnuns #Fascism #Heroism #Ravensbrück

29.01.2025 16:04 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
Photo of newspaper article on the Irish in the Resistance.

Photo of newspaper article on the Irish in the Resistance.

#IrishResistance
Incredible spread in @IrishMirror on 'The Irish in the Resistance' yesterday. Thank you very much Derek Foley.

www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...

03.01.2025 19:29 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Born #Onthisday 1918 in #Dublin Maureen O'Sullivan (pictured), member of the Special Operations Executive during #WW2 & worked as a wireless operator for the French Section-check out 'Irish in the Resistance' for more @clodaghfinn.bsky.social B&W📸https://bit.ly/4010WrW

03.01.2025 20:41 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Irish in the Resistance - il y en encore plus que Samuel Beckett :)

27.12.2024 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#IrishResistance
A massive thank you to the families who told us their stories, the archivists who gave us access to documents, @gillbooks who turned our work into a book, the reviewers who were so kind, but most of all, to every single one of you who bought The Irish in the Resistance.🙏

23.12.2024 16:56 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan: A valuable insight into heroic resistance Authors have done exceptional research work in ferreting out such comprehensive accounts of these Irish resistance activists

Paddy Woodworth on The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan: A valuable insight into heroic resistance. Authors have done exceptional research work in ferreting out such comprehensive accounts of these Irish resistance activists

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

05.12.2024 08:26 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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Enjoy the book, Seán.
All the very best to you and @colleen325.bsky.social

06.12.2024 00:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A parting gift from my long suffering friend and colleague Tony Mulchahy. A man whose kindness I could never repay.

04.12.2024 08:04 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you very much Paddy Woodworth, and a particular thank you to Donal Fallon for his unstinting encouragement and support. 🙏

30.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My co-author John Morgan and I have been blown away by the response to the book and the interest in the 50+ forgotten Irish people who risked their lives so that we might all have a better future.

30.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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What a day! The Irish in the Resistance features as Donal Fallon's book of the year AND it gets a fantastic review from Paddy Woodworth, both in today's Irish Times.

30.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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Benito Lertxundi, la voz de un pueblo Benito Lertxundi, la voz de un pueblo.

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#ElBardoDeOrio

27.11.2024 14:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Benito Lertxundi anuncia su retirada de los escenarios con la presentación de su último disco en directo El bardo de Orio dice adiós a 60 años de carrera con la publicación de un álbum grabado en el Jai Alai de Gernika

Benito Lertxundi dice adiós a los escenarios después de 60 años de trayectoria 🥲 Se despide con un disco doble en directo grabado en Gernika
www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus/cultura/2024...

27.11.2024 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Benito Lertxundi se retira a los 82 años: el legado de una leyenda de la música vasca El icónico Bardo de Orio cierra una carrera de seis décadas con el lanzamiento de su último disco, Gernika Zuzenean, y una emotiva despedida en el Jai-Alai de Gernika | Cadena SER

Benito Lertxundi se retira a los 82 años: el legado de una leyenda de la música vasca

https://t.co/x3zOnNqxJ8

27.11.2024 13:14 — 👍 36    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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#IrishResistance
Thank you very much Anne Cunningham for this beautiful review:
The Irish in the Resistance 'is an impeccably written and important slice of Irish history'.
The book is available here:
linktr.ee/irishinthere...

www.meathchronicle.ie/2024/11/16/t...

17.11.2024 10:28 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Luna llena desde Igueldo
#donostia #sansebastian #lunallena #fullmoon

15.11.2024 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you very much Majella O'Sullivan for this lovely piece in Kerry's Eye. There are just a few tickets left for our talk on The Irish in the Resistance tomorrow at 6pm.
Make sure to check out all the events @DingleLit
It's a brilliant festival.
See you there!
dinglelit.ie/news/event/iri…

15.11.2024 14:06 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#Euskera

15.11.2024 10:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Irish in the Resistance Myles is joined by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan, authors of 'The Irish In The Resistance: The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler'

The RTÉ History Show: The Irish in the Resistance #IrishHistory #Ireland

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

17.09.2024 05:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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