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Ireland

What if we could turn the clock back by 500 years?

Does history repeat itself? Yes, but it’s complicated. Sometimes its repetitions are relatively simple — the folly of Hitler in invading Russia replicated the folly of Napoleon nearly 150 years earlier. The folly of financial speculation peppers the centuries with booms and busts. Alison Weir is a historical biographer, specialising in English monarchs of the […]

by Michael Kirke / 3 mins  /