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Re: History Shorts

Postby Enviro500 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:34 am

Was there not a television series made of the Emergency

"EMERGENCY WARD DAIL".....

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Re: History Shorts

Postby grammer » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:34 pm

The war between America and Britian,Ireland and Canada-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
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Re: History Shorts

Postby grammer » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:44 pm

Gulliver » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:42 am

Who won?

Or is it just like the "Emergency" in Ireland which was never officially ended?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kskx2VKQkgY

Rationing continued for another couple of years -
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Re: History Shorts

Postby jwdalk » Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:11 pm

Nice piece in the Irish Times today. Custom House to Dun Laoghaire in 25 minutes by sea would still be some going today!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opi ... 24906.html
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Re: History Shorts

Postby Rocker » Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:55 pm

Thanks for that Jwdalk. Facinating. I never heard of that before. Pity they didn't continue it would have saved 20 tough years pushing on and off the DART !!!
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