Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
At the time when the Soviet Union was interfering in South Africa’s domestic affairs, a joke poked fun at politicians’ buck-wagon expressions. Speaking to a gathering crowd of African villagers in tedious political cliché a visiting uniformed Soviet Commissar earned constant applause. The uniformed Soviet functionary told the […]
I asked a friend who is heading towards his eightieth birthday what sort of changes he is feeling in himself? He sent me the following: 1. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself. 2. I have […]
‘I know that I have less to live than I have lived. And, I feel like a child who was given a box of chocolates. He enjoys eating it, and when he sees not much left, he starts to eat them with a special taste.
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville. Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved the identity of remains – with the navigator’s precise origins to be revealed Scientists in Spain have solved the two lingering mysteries that cling to Christopher Columbus more than five centuries after the explorer died Are […]
Slovakia could become the first country to ban the covid mRNA vaccines. Massive news coming out of Slovakia, and as usual, the mainstream media is barely reporting on this. Remember how people were mocked by mainstream and highly paid ‘experts’ and called crazy conspiracy theorists for questioning if […]
Sadly, the clip of a BBC’s main news item that displayed an Indian street celebration as an anti-Gaddafi demo in Tripoli’s main square was par for the course these dark days. One would have thought that modern technology, and the internet, would have ended such knavish behaviour by […]
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ (L. P Hartley: The Go-Between)
The photograph of women having tea in New Zealand in 1890 captures a moment that reflects the social customs and cultural practices of the time. During the late 19th century, afternoon tea became a popular ritual, especially among Victorian society’s middle and upper classes. It served as a […]
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899
Why are Russian women so beautiful? Russian women project femininity, flair, elegance and desirability.
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