An Extract of Reflection
The meanderings of a muddled mind
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Fifty Years of Belfast Life (1866-1916) part 2
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By "THE MAN IN THE STREET." II. Having regard to my "Witness" associations, it is not unnatural that I should give ...
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Fifty Years of Belfast Life (1866-1916)
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By "THE MAN IN THE STREET." I. Fifty years seem an eternity to youth, but only a brief breathing time to age. I have spent th...
Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Merchant Seamen
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I've read about soldiers and sailors, Of infantry, airmen and tanks, Of battleships, corvettes, and cruisers, Of Anzacs, ...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016
To Ships and Men in War
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Peace washes silent o'er the ocean bed, It sweeps both time and substance in its path. The years roll forward, pass and make no ...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The Madman's Grave
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IN the year 1793, an unknown maniac, whose dress and figure bore the vestiges of a once better lot, wandered to Ballycastle, a beautiful ...
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Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Light Cruisers (Old)
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When you've marshalled your navies and gloried your fill In the latest they show of invention and skill, The lion in strength an...
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
On Witchcraft (1812)
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"What silly notions crowd the clouded mind, "That is through want of education blind." I SHALL not attempt, in the prese...
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