“Separating historical fact from fiction is a thankless task in Germany but one man is trying to do just that”: Derek Scally. >opinion piece (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Archive for May, 2013
Germany obsession with inflation: a myth?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags austerity, cultural history, euro, Europe, Germany, inflation, monetary system on 13 May 2013 by delclemDenigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alan Shatter, Diarmaid Ferriter, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Ireland, neutrality, World War II on 11 May 2013 by delclem
Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Continue reading
Performing the impossible
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Biedermeier, female authors, gender, Ida Pfeiffer, travel literature, Vienna, world travel on 9 May 2013 by delclem
Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) “was a Viennese women of the Biedermeier era with one dream: she wanted to travel. In the nineteenth century it was impossible for women to fulfil this wish. So she made it her life to perform the impossible.”
>full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Below: Ms Pfeiffer in travel gear; lithography by Adolf Dauthage; photo: wikipedia Continue reading
delirium clemens 