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Quirky stories from history that I liked writing and hopefully, you'll like reading.

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I’m so glad you’ve arrived. My website talldarkandhandwriting.com is where I share with you, articles I have written about all types of stories from the past. I am from Ireland. I am a secondary History and English teacher and I live and work in Dubai. I hope you enjoy my site and all of the unique content I create. I have enjoyed writing these stories, hopefully, you'll enjoy reading them. I write one new story every month, you can read it, as well as everything else I've written below.

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Finding Adolf

“They come out and they are holding with white gloves, their Grandfather’s memory box and inside of it are his war medals, from when he...

The Victorian Art of Bloodletting

“With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.” – Russ Ramsey Even though the Victorian era is little...

The Original Fight Club

“And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and...

Cupid's Disease

“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Are you familiar with the term...

Purple Hearted Dogs

“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.” – Stanley Coren We take them...

Masks of War

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain Just like an iceberg, the depths of sorrow that...

Little Lad of the Tricks

“He was suspicious in his youth, as a rat near strange bread.” – Patrick Kavanagh Asperger syndrome is distinguished by a pattern of...

Swastika Laundry

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Having read the title of this piece,...

Mugshot Martyr

“If I am a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.” – Oscar Wilde Pádraig Pearse was a poet, writer,...

The Story of Napoleon's Irish Horse

"I want no mercy - I'll have no mercy…. I'll die as many thousands have died, for the sake of their beloved land and in defence of it. I...

The Black and Tan Bookie

"I want no mercy - I'll have no mercy…. I'll die as many thousands have died, for the sake of their beloved land and in defence of it. I...

Dia Dhuit

"Níor mhór an Béarla a ruaigeadh as saol na hÉireann agus an Ghaeilge a chur i réim ina áit.” – “English must be driven out of Irish life...

Caution Sniper at Work

“Every person who speaks Irish bears witness to the failure of centuries of cultural cleansing by the establishment in Ireland.” -...

Liars in Loughgall

“I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first...

Hell in Headford

“Ní neart go cur le chéile.” – “There is strength in unity.” – Irish Proverb The above saying translates as “There is strength in unity.”...

The Unknown Nurse

“They breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin.”- Ian Paisley on Catholics 1969 Stories of 'ordinary' men and women healing the...

The Irish Question

“Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste.” – “Broken Irish is better than clever English.” The power of the Irish language is evident...

The Faux Famine

“The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine.”- John Mitchell An Gorta Mór, Ireland’s Great Famine or...

The 'False Surrender' Controversy

“Anyone that comes into my house and my country and tries to take over by force, I’m going to kill them and I’ll use any and every means...

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