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Hello,

I am a writer on History and Politics with a special interest in Ireland and its struggle for independence. My initial interest was in the problem of the curious political construct of ‘Northern Ireland,’ where I live.  To understand Irish History and Politics I found it necessary to study the Great War of 1914-18, and its influence on the world. In researching the Great War I was not only taken to examine the war on Germany but toward investigating Britain’s war on Ottoman Turkey and other aspects of this formative event. These aspects, many of which are long forgotten, are the subject of this website. I hope you find them interesting.

Pat Walsh

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  1. Dear Mr. Walsh, I am a German writer and I’ve read your Great Fraud and the War Book. Excellent work and I would like to send some remarks based on my own WWI researchs via eMail if you like.

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  3. Hi Pat,

    In your article on Bryce and Casement you attribute the term ‘fatal philanthropy to George Curzon.

    Can you tell me please where that term comes from. Was it a parliamentary debate?

    If you can supply a reference I’d be most grateful.

    Angus

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  4. I see a lot of anti-Armenian and some anti-Greek posts. Just curious how much the turks are paying you to whitewash history for them? What is the going rate now?

    Also ironic that an Irishman is siding with a genocidal nation/empire. One would think that the Irish, also having experienced genocide at the hands of the English, would sympathize with peoples in other parts of the world who have been subject to mass atrocities.

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    • What Nicolai Sennels observed on Danish Muslims about “locus of control” looks like valid for the Armenians also: “Who did this to me?” and “Who has to do something for me?” https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/63122/sec_id/63122

      There is a saying in Serbian which permeates all borders in Balkans: “A Man without an enemy is nobody” Morty, pray tell us whether this saying is true also for the Armenians?

      Reading a text and and marking it “anti-something” is the way to judge it’s worth? Or, is it a better way to look for whether text states facts or not?

      Morty, please be advised that your capital letter usage is well noted as “lapsus linguae” and that conspiracy theories are high on your agenda. https://www.thoughtco.com/slip-of-the-tongue-sot-1692106

      Dr. Walsh, please keep up enlightening work.

      Best regards

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    • Northern Irish. Probably a collaborator. The sad thing is he probably does not even get that much money from his Azerbaijani paymasters.

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  5. Hi Dr Walsh
    Is there any studies on the Ankara Nationalist Government’s relations (if any) with the Irish Independence Movement?
    Are there any direct or indiriect contact between the Turks and the Irish, considering they’re fighting against the British Imperialism at the same time?
    Thank you
    Murat Dogan

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  6. Walsh Effendi, I noticed that between Feb. 14 to August 11 of this year you wrote thirteen articles about Armenia/Armenians and all (surprise, surprise) were viciously anti-Armenian. One doesn’t see this type of verbal vomit against Armenians every day even among Turkbeijan “journalists”. I am amazed “The Irish Times”–not exactly “The New York Times” of international coverage–allows you the space to write about Armenia (not exactly the centre of the world) and infuse your arcane lies and the hoary twisting of facts which several English writers better than you have tilled pointlessly and finally given up because they realized they were pissing against the wind when they took on the Armenians–a nation which has been around since 2,250 B.C. How old are you, Doctor agha? I can think of two reasons for your anti-Armenian paranoia: you are a beneficiary of Aliev’s European Laundromat conspiracy (I understand times are tough for ink-stained wretches like you, especially in a backwater burg like the one where you sweat your whorish lies. The second reason? An Armenian woman rejected your advances. Judging by your lager- lout mug, I say she was a discriminating woman.
    My condolences for the bloody nose your Azeri sponsors suffered the other day and in the process ceded several strategic positions to the Armenians who were under attack. Here you have a stamp-sized, landlocked, blockaded country with few natural resources beating a country with more than three times Armenia’s population and a war budget larger than Armenia’s total budget…plus the latest in Israeli weapons (15 Israeli drones bit the dust when Armenia’s home-made anti-drone missiles brought them down). I guess the Az drones were genuine drones–like the useless drones of a hive. For thrity years the Az have been unable to beat Armenia (I hope you don’t say Russia helps us. Russia also sells weapons to corrupt Aliev. With the Az people becoming more defiant every day, I hope Baby Aliev (president for life) attacks us and finds the Armenian army in Baku. This, of course, would mean no more Baku junkets for you and no more Laundromat privileges.
    In writing the above, I am hoping you will write more angry anti-Armenian falsehoods and soon…burn a fuse or two as your alcoholic’s face crushes on the keyboard.”Happy -30- Doc.”

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  9. Dear Mr. Walsh,
    Thank you for your work! It has greatly informed my thinking. Thank you for your objectivity. I enjoy reading your critical analysis.

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  11. Dear Pat Walsh, I love you, man! I love you, I love you, I love you! Thank you so much man! I mean it! Thank you!

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  12. Dear Pat Walsh, I would like to thank you.
    I am an Azerbaijani PhD student studying in Northern Ireland, and I always wanted to approach the Armenian-Azerbaijan from different aspects. However, I mostly found biased opinions about the conflict. The reason I accept most information biased is that something even I experienced myself has been denied by various Armenian scholars. Thank you for publishing objective articles.

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  13. Hi Mr. Walsh; very warm greetings from Istanbul, Turkey.

    I am a History licence student, currently on my third year in Istanbul Bilgi University. Just like you, I am interested in the history of later Ottoman Empire/early modern Turkish Republic, history of Ireland; post-WWI Soviet/Russian history and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict (including its foremath and the histories of both nations). As somebody who is interested on Ireland and thinking to possibly do a masters degree there (hopefully in Trinity), your historical point of view largely resonates with me. I really want to thoroughly research the conncections between Ireland and Turkey. Our help during your Great Famine is relatively known, but I’m also sure we can find perhaps even more interesting connections concerning the First World War and also our War of Independence. I think there also might be some unexpected connections between Ireland and Azerbaijan- for instance, I recall reading the Azerbaijanis emigrated to America during the 1910s using port cities in then Great Britain. It is very likely that some of them find their way, whether temporarily, in Ireland aswell. However, it is not a very well researched topic. Your political views are also interesting. The Irish support for Palestine is extremely precious from my perception, you are truly a nation that knows what suffering is (yet unlike some other “suffering” nations, you don’t try to seek sympathy for other’s benefit, that’s very impressive and shows your honor and bravery) thus it is only natural for me to feel that you are also an anti-imperialist (another quality that unites Turkey and Ireland). I cannot say I completely argue with you concerning the topic of Ukraine, though I definitely do acknowledge it is a plan of USA and UK (probably also Israel although they seem less vocal in order to avoid backlash, these three countries are almost always united), so I understand and; to some extent, agree with you there aswell. I also definitely agree with you that Ireland should stay neutral forever and should never become a part of NATO- there doesn’t seem to be such enthusiasm over there in the first place, though. In any case, I would like to see “peace at home, peace in the world”.

    For me, you are an “International Kemalist”. As Turkish students, we are concerned that if we cannot unite all Kemalists around the world, and cannot expand the Kemalism beyond the borders of Turkey, it can no longer survive. Since neither inner powers (the current Turkish politics) nor external powers seem to defend the view; in case of external powers, they’re seemingly trying to make it ineffective too. Thus, Kemalism can only survive internationally. Since the aftermath of WWII, the cult (not quite legacy, I’m afraid) of Atatürk stayed and in some cases also increased, though his thoughts and ideas became largely devalued. Me and many other students are aware of this and all agree that our time has come, or, as an Irishman would say “Tiocfaidh ar la”. So, my question about this topic is do you personally know any (preferably Irish) historians that share the same views with you concerning Turkey, Azerbaijan, maybe Palestine (honestly I cannot simply expect to be the other way for the latter)?

    I am also ready to research the connections between ancient Turkic and Celtic peoples. Though I’m aware that this one requires cooperation with other various departments (like archaeology, linguistics etc.), one can simply not unsee that at one point of history the paths of Turkic and Celtic tribes crossed, not to mention the Galatians that settled in Anatolia. There was also this Celtic tribe called Atrepates, and it is believed that the name of Azerbaijan comes from the name “Atropatena” (this needs more research though). Indeed, many Azerbaijanis and Turks alike have Celtic genes in their DNA, it can be easily seen through multiple Youtube videos. There are also interesting word connections; such as Burun (Turkish/Azeri) and Sron (Irish) meaning nose, Bıdık (Turkish) and Beadeag (Irish) meaning little child, and weirdly also; Sümük (Turkish) and Smoga (Irish), this one allegedly means “snot”. Moreover, “muhteşem” in Turkish and “möhteşem” in Azerbaijani both mean “grand” as in big, but both of us (Turks and Azerbaijanis) would rather use it to imply something being “very good” pretty much like how the Irish use “grand” basically. If researched dedicatedly, we can well multiple these interesting connections.

    I hope this mail finds you well. In order to cooperate with me, please do not hesitate to reply. I hope a good future for the world full of peace.

    Thank you very much.

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    • Hi Selim, thanks for your message. Thank you for putting in the time and effort for your reply. I’m not used to receiving such long comments. Anyway I did some research years ago about Turkish/Irish links coming from my book Britains Great War on Turkey. I think much of the material is on the website from around 2914. The big thing I found was the articles in the Catholic Bulletin on Turkey and Ataturk from 1921-2. I put all of them in the book and then worked with the Turkish Embassy in Dublin on some other material we found. If you wish to discuss anything my email is drpatwalsh458@gmail.com. Have a new book out around April called Sumgait and the fall of Nagorno Karabakh. Have been concentrating on Azerbaijan lately as there is less known about it in the West. Good luck in your studies.

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      • Thanks a lot! Sorry for recieving your reply fairly late. I am looking forward to your book and good luck to you and your nation as well.

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