Category: Culture
If Bogie weren’t an actor, he might have cut it as a professional chess aficionado!
Humphrey Bogart is one of the silver screen’s classic icons. Regarded by many as the best screen actor of all […]
Peace in Ireland?: The Good Friday Agreement.
The twentieth century saw some of the worst political violence in Northern Ireland, between 1969 and 1999, where almost some […]
Madness, hysteria, panic and Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the radio ruled the air waves in homes around the world. An […]
Will the real Lady Godiva please raise your hand?
Did the real Lady Godiva actually ride through Coventry naked is a question that we have all been asking for […]
My unashamed admiration for Hana Mandlikova.
In the early to mid eighties when I was a kid I was obsessed with tennis. The back of my […]
Karma really is a beautiful thing. Greg LeMond and his new carbon fibre venture.
Karma really is a beautiful thing! I am a true believer of what goes around comes around. A few days […]
The Mysterious Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene is to simply put it an enigma. She is one of the more fascinating characters or persons from […]
Amazing Women Who Inspire Us: Dame Nellie Melba
The incredible Nellie Melba was a woman truly ahead of her time. She ignored society’s views of a woman’s place […]
Amazing Women Who Inspire Us: Turia Pitt.
This weekend I will be watching with great interest the Hawaiian Ironman. The race itself, a test of endurance, mental […]
Muhammad and the Revelation of God
According to Muslim tradition, on the 8th of June, 632 CE, following a short illness, the Prophet Muhammad, died […]
