David Lawlor
@davidlawlor.bsky.social
Communications professional, journalist, author, history blogger, husband, demented father of four...
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Is this the mother of all Mother's Day stories..?
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Five historic mothers for Mothers’ Day…
Were you smugly congratulating yourself in December for getting off the Christmas card merry-go-round? Perhaps you thought an email to loved ones would cover things on that occasion. Or you might h…
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March 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Is this the mother of all Mother's Day stories..?
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#mothersday
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#mothersday
With International Women's Day on 8th March, here's one female warrior who went toe to toe with the best of them...
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Lozen, the Warrior Woman
AS a boy, I remember looking longingly through the window of Turner’s shop on Aughrim Street and wishing I had more in my pocket than the 50p that nestled there. Turner’s was our specia…
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March 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
With International Women's Day on 8th March, here's one female warrior who went toe to toe with the best of them...
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With #Holocaust Memorial Day almost upon us, read what one survivor told me about life before, during and after life in a concentration camp...
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Interview with a Holocaust Survivor
Frank Grunwald was just 12 years old when he and his family entered the concentration camps. Terezinstadt, Auschwitz, Melk, Mauthausen . . . he was in them all. Unfortunately, neither his brother n…
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January 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With #Holocaust Memorial Day almost upon us, read what one survivor told me about life before, during and after life in a concentration camp...
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Life After Death with McCurdy's Mummy
The true story of the outlaw whose body outlasted them all...
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The true story of the outlaw whose body outlasted them all...
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January 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Life After Death with McCurdy's Mummy
The true story of the outlaw whose body outlasted them all...
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The true story of the outlaw whose body outlasted them all...
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MURDER, LUST, AND THE LAND THAT NEVER WAS
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The black heart amid the Arctic's blinding light - how not even numbing cold could cool hot-blooded men battling the wilderness and, maybe, battling their own lustful desires...
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The black heart amid the Arctic's blinding light - how not even numbing cold could cool hot-blooded men battling the wilderness and, maybe, battling their own lustful desires...
#history
Murder, Lust, and The Land That Never Was…
It’s 1914 and US Navy Ensign Fitzhugh Green is freezing, exhausted, and on foot in the frigid, icy wilderness of the Arctic, watching in frantic despair as his only companion, an Inuit hunter calle…
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December 30, 2024 at 9:16 AM
MURDER, LUST, AND THE LAND THAT NEVER WAS
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The black heart amid the Arctic's blinding light - how not even numbing cold could cool hot-blooded men battling the wilderness and, maybe, battling their own lustful desires...
#history
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The black heart amid the Arctic's blinding light - how not even numbing cold could cool hot-blooded men battling the wilderness and, maybe, battling their own lustful desires...
#history
Why we need Santa more than ever...
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Why we need Santa more than ever…
You might have read before about the Christmas truce of 1914, that impromptu gathering in the mud of Flanders’ No Man’s Land when German and British soldiers downed weapons and greeted each other a…
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December 19, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Why we need Santa more than ever...
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How Santa's helpers beat the Nazis...
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How Santa’s helpers beat the Nazis
In the stillness of night they wait, antler horns silhouetted against the moonlit sky as heads turn, unfazed, towards their master. Hot air plumes from flared nostrils, hooves dig at the packed sno…
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December 18, 2024 at 11:22 AM
How Santa's helpers beat the Nazis...
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