Brian Desmond Hurst – Empress at Gallipoli

Brian Desmond Hurst – Empress at Gallipoli

‘Some people have asked me over the years whether I’m bisexual. In fact, I am tri-sexual. The Army, the Navy and the Household Cavalry.’ So spake Brian Desmond Hurst, Ireland’s most prolific 20th century director. This account focuses on the Belfast man’s...
The Ards Explosion, 1917

The Ards Explosion, 1917

Click here for more stories of County Down.   William Charles Hall of Newtonards, County Down, married Olive O’Grady Roche, daughter of Sir Standish Dean O’Grady Roche and his wife Lady Mary, of Aghade Lodge, Ballynoe, County Carlow. At the time of the 1901...