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More than any one man Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the day to day mechanics and logistics that lay behind the Holocaust, and made it possible.

The most famous Irish High King, and one of the most significant battles in Irish history will be examined at the next meeting of the Renmore History Society.

When the smoke cleared at the Sabine Pass on September 8 1863, a narrow channel on the border between Texas and Louisiana, two Union ships, the USS Clifton and the USS Sachem, had their steam engines blown out. They had beached on the shallows, and had signalled their surrender. The remaining invasion fleet, and its 5,000 troops, had made a hasty retreat, giving an incredible victory to the 43 Irishmen at Fort Griffin.

As the Voyager space probe recently left the solar particle field for regions where the sun’s influence does not penetrate, it is timely to look at the history of human attempts to understand the cosmos.

The SS, Nazi Germany’s most feared elite regiment, responsible for some of the most appalling crime against humanity in WWII, will be the subject of a public lecture in Galway next week.

In India in 1920, the Connaught Rangers mutinied in sympathy with their fellow countrymen back home, who were fighting in the War of Independence.

To mark Eyre Square’s 300th anniversary, a new limited edition book on the history of the city’s central point is about to be launched.

The Galway City Museum will commemorate the 300th anniversary of Eyre Square this Saturday with a public lecture on the city’s main civic space.

Star Trek is not just a TV phenomenon and sub-culture, it is a reflection of and comment upon the public’s enduring fascination with space exploration and technology.

Standing on sodden fields at Waterloo awaiting battle; surviving the damp, dirt, and dead bodies in the Western Front trenches; and enduring the heat of the desert at El Alamein were hard enough experiences without also having to face death as the enemy closed in.