@everypubindublin.ie there’s three pubs in Dublin named after airplanes that I can think of: The Comet and The Viscount in Whitehall, and The Concorde in Edenmore. Not that many I guess but more than I would have expected. Do you happen to know of any more?

Gorgeous Irish translation from 1934 of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells for sale in Hodges Figgis. Look at that cover!

Reading the wikipedia page for this ice hockey match between Canada and the Soviet Union that ended in an all-out brawl.

Lol. Lmao even.

Nearing the end of my first Aubrey-Maturin circumnavigation, so decided to commemorate that with a map of Port Mahon as it might have been in 1800, or, where it all began. Little blog post on it here: conoronmaps.com/aubrey-matur...