Friday, February 19, 2016

Pancho or Pearse?

The newspaper columns are laden with news of revolution. The is serious military action taking place 175 miles south of Dublin. The charismatic leader was born in the late 1870s. The use of wireless to control the airwaves and to direct operations was a new by product of the new radio technology  but this was not Ireland. It was Mexico in April 1916.


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