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Ciaran Conliffe

Ciaran Conliffe

Ciaran lives in Belfast, where he programs professionally and writes compulsively. See more of his writing and blogging at www.dailyscribbling.com or follow him on Twitter as @shinyemptyhead.

Terrible People from History

Colonel Francis Charteris, gambler and rake

Ciaran Conliffe Dec 29, 2014 0
The “class system” in British society grew out of the feudal system that Britain never officially abandoned (unlike most other European countries afflicted with that particular social disease). The transition was largely gradual - the…
Terrible People from History

General Lee Christmas, train driver turned mercenary

Ciaran Conliffe Dec 22, 2014 0
Lee Christmas was born on a plantation in Louisiana in 1863. His first job was as a pilot on the local tugboats, but by the time he was 16 he was working on the railroad in Mississippi. For the next twelve years he works on railroads across…
Terrible People from History

PT Barnum, The Greatest Showman On Earth

Ciaran Conliffe Dec 15, 2014 0
Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in 1810 in the town of Bethel, Connecticut. His family had deep roots thereabouts - he was named for his mother’s father, a local judge. His own father was, according to PT Barnum’s obituary, “ever on the…
Terrible People from History

James Bloomfield Rush | A Will to Murder

Ciaran Conliffe Dec 8, 2014 0
James Rush was born in 1800, of what was delicately referred to as “uncertain parentage”. His mother, Mary Bloomfield (spelt as Blomfield in some texts) was the unmarried daughter of a tenant farmer, and she did not name his father. Some…
Terrible People from History

Edward Teach, AKA Blackbeard

Ciaran Conliffe Dec 1, 2014 0
History is rarely as clear-cut as it appears on the surface. Everybody knows that the druids were the educated priestly classes of the Celts, for example, but our sole source for that knowledge is the writings of non-Celts looking in from…
Terrible People from History

Hiram Maxim, Engineer of Death

Ciaran Conliffe Nov 24, 2014 0
There is a myth about the tortured scientist, crying out in pain as he sees the inventions he created for peace used to wage war. There are stories of scientists who believed that the inventions they created had made war so terrible that it…
History

American Policemen And Their Moustaches

Ciaran Conliffe Nov 20, 2014 2
The police forces of the world have, it sometimes seems, more than their share of traditions. Perhaps it’s the inherent danger of the job that drives this desire for ritual, and a similar drive can be seen in military forces, firefighters…
Terrible People from History

Marie-Josephte Corriveau

Ciaran Conliffe Nov 17, 2014 2
One important lesson for any historian is this: beware of imposing our values on the past. While we should naturally avoid taking on archaic moral attitudes ourselves, we must always remember that the cultures of the past judged things…
Terrible People from History

Jonathan Wild, the Thief Taker General

Ciaran Conliffe Nov 10, 2014 0
There’s a story in The Newgate Calendar about Jonathan Wild. A merchant came to him with one of his porters and told him of how the man had been set upon by a gang of thieves. At the time, London had no professional police force but…
History

25 Years On: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Ciaran Conliffe Nov 7, 2014 2
The 9th of November is a significant date in German history for several reasons. In 1848 it was the official end of the March Revolution, which laid the groundwork for the former Holy Roman Empire to become the German Empire in 1871. It…
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