Waterford Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Lectures at Sea (2): Churchill and the Myths of Ireland

14 July 2019 Comments 0 Comments

Myths Amid the Mists of Ireland

This is the Ireland portion of my lecture on the 2019 Hillsdale College Round-Britain cruise. Hillsdale cruises with “lectures at sea” are an annual event. They usually occur in the spring. For information on the 2020 cruise to Jerusalem and Athens, click here.

My book considers the tall tales, exaggerations, lies, myths, rumors and distortions about Churchill over the years. Nowadays, the old adage that you don’t speak ill of the dead is obsolete. It seems more important now to deconstruct history and puncture heroes.

The tool is the Internet.…

Churchill Remembered on the Hillsdale College Cruise (3): Portland, 1914

12 June 2019 Comments 0 Comments

The King’s Ships: “We may now picture this great Fleet, with its flotillas and cruisers, steaming slowly out of Portland Harbour, squadron by squadron, scores of gigantic castles of steel wending their way across the misty, shining sea, like giants bowed in anxious thought. We may picture them again as darkness fell, eighteen miles of warships running at high speed and in absolute blackness through the narrow Straits, bearing with them into the broad waters of the North the safeguard of considerable affairs.”

Irish Sea to Portland: Churchill Connections, 8-12 June 2019

The 2019 Hillsdale College Cruise around Britain was a unique opportunity to recall the Churchill saga by passing or visiting key places.…