October 2025
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I love to sing and I don’t care where I am or what I am doing, if I feel the urge to sing I just do it. However there is one song I can never sing along to, It is not that I don’t like the song, the opposite is true it is one of
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Nearly every day I pass by this building—the Gerald Griffin Memorial Schools on Bridge Street, Court House Lane, Limerick. The school has a rich history, yet one particular chapter is often overlooked. This building, now a former Christian Brothers School, was originally constructed as a courthouse, as the name of the lane to its north,
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This is my interview with Maida Purdy, who wrote a book about her father, Robert Purdy. Robert Purdy was born in 1919 in Wisconsin and raised in Detroit, Michigan. After completing two years of college, he began working as a machinist and tool-and-die maker in Ford and Chrysler auto plants. During this time, he became
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Dirk de Klein, born 10 April 1888. Died 25 November 1939. Place of residence: Heinsberg, Germany Cause of Death: Pneumonia. Dirk de Klein was diagnosed with an incurable disease in 1936. He was also an ardent opponent of the Nazi regime and had criticized Hitler and Himmler—publicly on several occasions. Dirk de Klein did not
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When the guns of World War II finally fell silent in 1945, Europe faced not only the monumental task of rebuilding cities and economies, but also of seeking justice. Few names were as synonymous with betrayal as Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian politician whose collaboration with Nazi Germany turned his surname into a byword for “traitor.”
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Masha Bruskina was a Russian teenage female partisan. She was a 17-year-old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belarus, since the German invasion of the Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. Masha Bruskina was born in Minsk, in the Soviet Union,
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The biggest group of Holocaust victims were the Jews, an estimated six million were murdered between 1933 and 1945. The second biggest group were the Gipsies (Roma and Sinti). During World War II, it is estimated that more than 500,000 Sinti and Roma from all over Europe were murdered by the Nazis in what has
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This post exposes the hypocrisy of several Irish left-wing political parties — including Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, the Social Democrats, and the Labour Party — as well as presidential candidate Catherine Connolly. Although Connolly claims she wants to be a president for all Irish citizens, she has nevertheless aligned herself with individuals associated with
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They weren’t numbers, they all had names—Children with dreams and lovers with flames,Mothers with lullabies soft on their lips,Fathers with hands roughened by gripsOn shovels, on hammers, on books worn with age,Each is bound to the world, each written on a page. They weren’t numbers; they all had lives,Some barely begun, some hardened by strife,Eyes
History of Sorts 
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