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Barcelona, Cour­tesy of the author I was doing research for my nov­el Kan­ti­ka— ​“song” in Ladi­no — when I stum­bled upon a silent film from 1929 called ​“Los judíos de patria españo­la,” or ​“Jews of the Span­ish Home­land.” To my aston­ish­ment, it looked to con­tain unat­trib­uted footage of my rel­a­tives in Barcelona, …

by Patrick Comerford  In a quiet corner in the churchyard of Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, early yesterday [7 March 2019], I found the grave of John Bernal (1819-1898), a Limerick auctioneer, city councillor and grandfather of one of the leading scientists of the 20th century. John Bernal had been a …