The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry

I've always been interested in history. It probably traces back to a leaflet produced by Banbridge District Council many years ago call...

I'd never really heard about this book before, but when loading my Kindle for holiday reading back in the summer, it came highly recomm...

After years of fighting across Europe, with devastation on an unimaginable scale, the guns fell silent at 11am on the eleventh day of the e...

Last Sunday morning being Remembrance Sunday, I preached from Psalm 46: Refuge and Strength . Here's how it sounded.

Charles Blondin was a famous tightrope walker. He made a name for himself by crossing the Niagra Falls many times on a tightrope. Massive c...

Have you ever seen the old TV programme ‘Dad’s Army’? It’s set in the second world war, in the town of Walmington-on-Sea and follows the ex...

While the poppy crosses fade away, our memories must never fade. Remembrance is an essential element of the human experience. Today, and on ...

Today is Armistice Day, and I thought I would post an old photograph that belonged to my grandfather. He had served in the North Irish Horse...

Ninety-three years ago today, almost a generation of my countrymen, many of whom were probably younger than myself, were wiped out in one ac...

Last night in Belfast, a new war memorial was being dedicated. But rather than commemorating the sacrifice of soldiers, it remembers innocen...

Today is the 90th anniversary of the ending of World War One - the Great War. The guns fell silent and peace came to the world. Or not, as t...