Category: Ita’s World

Bishop Edward Daly, Doctor of Divinity, was a well known Irish Roman Catholic priest and author of pastoral and other publications. He served as the Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1994. As advocate and activist he took part in several civil rights marches and events during the period known as ‘The Troubles’. He had first-hand experience of the Battle of the Bogside in 1969, the early years of The Troubles and of internment. He became a public figure…

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Known as the Great War, and later First World War (1914-18), it was fought in many different lands by armies from many nations. It was one in which the Central Powers (Germany, and Austria-Hungary, joined later by Turkey and Bulgaria) were defeated by an alliance of Britain and its dominions, France, Russia, and others, joined later by Italy and the United States. Political tensions over the rise of the German Empire were the war’s principal cause, although it was…

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