French Resistance
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James Roderick (Roddy) Evans – skilled surgeon devoted to faith and creating peace
- People
- September 20, 2020, 15:01
Dr Roddy Evans, who died in Belfast on September 9th, aged 97, played rugby and cricket for Leinster schoolboys, was a skilled surgeon who practised m(...)

Resistance: Marcel Marceau’s extraordinary early life helping Jewish children flee France
- Film
- June 19, 2020, 06:00
Like a lot of small-minded people radicalised by embarrassing street performers walking into imaginary winds, I know less about the history of mime th(...)

Macron indulges in self-flattery with homage to Charles de Gaulle
- Europe
- June 18, 2020, 19:30
At General Charles de Gaulle’s second World War headquarters in London on Thursday, president Emmanuel Macron compared de Gaulle to Britain’s wartime (...)

Macron leads months-long homage to Charles de Gaulle
- Europe
- March 9, 2020, 20:00
The first biopic of the last great Frenchman, titled simply De Gaulle, opened in French cinemas on March 4th. It focuses on events leading up to Charl(...)

The play with no performers: Beckett’s Room is something between a conjuring act and a weird dream
- Stage
- September 7, 2019, 05:00
Samuel Beckett’s chair swivels with restless energy as he types, the keys clacking out a new communiqué for the French Resistance. It is 1942, in the(...)

Home Front: Are these the finest wooden spoons you can get?
- Interiors
- June 29, 2019, 00:00
Cutting edge kitchen spoons Éamonn O’Sullivan of Hewn works with greenwoods using traditional techniques and tools to create some of the most tactile(...)

When Charles de Gaulle came to Ireland for six weeks
- Irish News
- June 13, 2019, 01:00
Fifty years before Donald Trump’s trip, another globally recognised politician came to Ireland on a private visit that turned out to be far from priva(...)

The beginning of French politics as we know it
- Europe
- September 4, 2018, 01:00
France’s Fifth Republic was born 60 years ago on Tuesday, when General Charles de Gaulle published a new constitution. It was the beginning of French (...)

Lapsed Irish Catholics ‘most sympathetic’ to Jews, says author
- Religion & Beliefs
- June 20, 2017, 20:41
Lapsed Catholics among Irish writers seemed to have been more favourably disposed towards Jews, according to a British author and academic. “I think (...)

Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, by Robert Gildea
- Books
- September 5, 2015, 00:42
A few years ago I attended a memorial for a group of Resistance fighters in a small village in southwest France. A large stone Cross of Lorraine showe(...)