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Category Archive: France

The House that Ubu Built

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For the last 12 months I have been getting stressed. About a house. Not my house you understand, […]

January 16, 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, Culture, France, History, Sport

Living in the fast lanes of Le Mans

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Speed is a drug. It is a high that gives you a sustained rush of adrenalin, takes you […]

June 16, 2017 France, Sport

The Corbeil Crash of ’44

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At six o’clock in the evening on June 8, a small crowd gathers by a wall in the […]

June 7, 2017 France, History

This Band of Brothers…and Sisters

You may not have heard it on the news but French police picked up a terror suspect earlier […]

October 26, 2015 France, History

In a Corner of a Foreign Field: the sad tale of Varig Flight 820

Some time ago, in the dim and distant past that was the 1980s, I was in a Dublin […]

October 20, 2014 France, History, Trinity College

Bastareaud comes of age at Toulon

Next Sunday, two of Europe’s rugby heavyweights go head to head in Marseille – current Heineken Cup champions […]

April 22, 2014 France, Rugby union, Sport

Bonnes nouvelles for Bonneval

It isn’t quite back to the future in the world of French rugby but for those of us […]

February 10, 2014 France, Rugby union, Sport

Book Review: 1915 The Death of Innocence

Plenty has been written and said over the last fortnight about the horrors and sacrifices that the men […]

November 26, 2013 Book reviews, Books, France, History

Not so quiet on the Western Front

This story begins with a map which used to hang in our hallway when I was a small […]

October 1, 2013 France, History

Book Review: The Final Whistle

Sports writing – and rugby in particular – has been guilty over the years of overborrowing phrases or […]

September 24, 2013 Belgium, Book reviews, Books, Culture, Dublin, France, History, Olympics, Rugby union, Sport

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