The Story of Rorke’s Drift: The Irishman and the Zulus
This is a reposting of a piece I wrote about James Rorke, originally published at World Irish. Click here to read it.
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The First Person Run Over By A Train: September 15th 1830
by Niall McArdle William Huskisson could have been remembered in history for many things. The son of a Staffordshire family with strong ties to the Royal Navy, he lived in Paris as a teenager and witnessed the beginning of the French Revolution. Interested in finance, Huskisson came to prominence in Paris after he gave a […]
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kwaJimu: The Irishman and the Zulus, by Niall McArdle note: a version of this first appeared at WorldIrish “Rorke’s Drift? It would take an Irishman to give his name to a rotten stinking middle o’ nowhere hole like this.” Private Henry Hook, 1879. Every time I watch the magnificent Zulu, the epic account of the […]
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The Fluff Is Raging 