An anthology of posts In That Howling Infinite addressing matters historical.
Australia
Britain and Ireland
- The Spirit of ’45
- The Monarch of the Sea
- Mo Ghile Mear – Irish myth and melody
- The Boys of Wexford – memory and memoir
- Encounters with Enoch
- Little Sir Hugh – Old England’s Jewish Question
- When Harald Went A Viking
- Roman Wall Blues
Romans
The Middle East
- Rocky road to Heaven’s Gate
- Once in Royal David’s Citadel
- The grand old New Imperial Hotel
- Nova Via Dolorosa
- King Herod’s edifice complex
- The Mizrahi Factor
- O Little Town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie…
- The hand that signed the paper
- Islam’s house of many mansions
- Ottoman Redux – an alternative history
- Sailing to Byzantium
- The Watchers of the Water
- Pity the Nation
- Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion
- Children of the revolution
- Rojava and the Kurdish conundrum
- The ghosts of Gandamak
- Messing with the Mullahs – America’s phoney war?
The Rest of the World
- A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the West
- The Twilight of the Equine Gods
- Sic Semper Tyrannis
- Thermidorian Thinking
- Solitudinem Pacem Appellant
- A House Divided – the Nature of Civil War
- Allende’s Desk and Osama’s Pyjamas
- Ghosts of the Gulag
- The Death of Stalin is no laughing matter
- Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold – 1968 revisited
- Weighing the White Man’s Burden
- Freedom at Midnight (1): the birth of India and Pakistan
- Freedom at Midnight (2): the legacy of partition
- November 1918 – the counterfeit peace
- Dulce et ducorem est – the death of Wilfred Owen
- Tanks for the memory – how Brezhnev changed my life
- Phil Och’s Chicago blues
- Springtime in Paris – remembering May 1968
- The last rains came gently – Steinbeck’s dustbowl ballad
- Las Treces Rosas – Spain’s Unquiet Graves
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Ataturk Monument, Istanbul
Salah ud Din al Ayubi, Damascus
The Croppy Boy, Enniscorthy
