Beethoven - "Wellington's Victory"

[LMcD]

If you can face picking your way through the comments underneath the Irish Times article helpfully posted by Dermot its fairly clear why playing Wellington’s Victory on Irish Radio might need a bit of how can one put it ? “pre-emptive contextualisation” maybe….

I'll have a look - thanks.
My paternal grandfather served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but ended up - in both senses of the word - in Grimsby!

[Ein Heldenleben]

I'll have a look - thanks.
My paternal grandfather served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but ended up - in both senses of the word - in Grimsby!

Small world! -though mine ending up travelling it as a telegraph engineer having been taught signalling in WW1. On another literary note Molly Bloom’s father is a fictional RDF officer in Ulysses.

[LMcD]

Small world! -though mine ending up travelling it as a telegraph engineer having been taught signalling in WW1. On another literary note Molly Bloom’s father is a fictional RDF officer in Ulysses.

Mine describes himself as 'Chief Clerk - Corporation' (probably Grimsby or Cleethorpes) on my mother's wedding certificate. I know where he's buried, and have a photo of the headstone, but the early break-up of my parents' wedding meant that I hit the buffers in the search for more information. One didn't ask questions about my father or his family - sad but perhaps not that unusual.