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Review – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Posted on Dec 9, 2022 by NFB

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Trailer In the midst of lockdown, legendary private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) receives a mysterious invitation to travel to the island of tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) and take part in a … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Bunreacht Na hEireann

Posted on Feb 15, 2022 by NFB

Eamon de Valera was elevated to the leadership of the Irish Free State on the back of a commitment to dismantle the disliked elements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, protect the Irish economy at a time of huge financial uncertainty and … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The First Decades For Northern Ireland

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 by NFB

We do spend most of this series dealing with events in what we would identify as the lower 26 counties, at this time of discussion the Irish Fee State. Partly this is because of my own bias, which I cannot … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The Civil War In Northern Ireland

Posted on Oct 26, 2021 by NFB

It has long been the case that the north of Ireland received a disproportionately little amount of attention in terms of historical study of the Irish revolutionary period. This seems especially strange in the context of the War of Independence, … Continue reading →

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Review: No Time To Die

Posted on Oct 22, 2021 by NFB

No Time To Die Trailer Five years after being seemingly betrayed by his paramour Madeline (Lea Seydoux), James Bond (Daniel Craig) lives quietly until approached by old friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) with the temptation of another mission. A kidnapped … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Spring 1922 In Belfast

Posted on Jan 12, 2021 by NFB

We have looked at the situation in Northern Ireland from a slightly more general perspective in the early months of 1922, with the new state struggling to define its relationship to the provisional government, and violence being a frequent result. … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Collins’ Northern Policy And The Clones Shootout

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 by NFB

We have spent a good few entries recently discussing the larger geo-political/military situation in Ireland, between the furor around the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the growing split in the nationalist movement. While all of that was going on, the situation in … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Ulster In 1921

Posted on Sep 8, 2020 by NFB

It has almost become a tired cliche on this site, but I will say it at least one more time: the Irish War of Independence in Ulster is an under-researched and under-noticed thing. In many of the history books and … Continue reading →

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Review: Knives Out

Posted on Dec 13, 2019 by NFB

Knives Out Trailer It seems somewhat strange to me that it has only been a few years since Rian Johnson went from being a moderately well-known director still in the relatively early part of his career, to being one of … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Home Rule And Volunteers

Posted on Jun 13, 2017 by NFB

We are now truly entering an era of Irish history commonly identified with the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. The events we will be discussing were the final steps on the road to those conflicts, … Continue reading →

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