#brian faulkner

[napoleondidthat]

Any good historical fiction featuring Napoleon?

I’m sorry I’m late in replying and that I’ve been absent :( Been a busy week and I took a break for my birthday :)

There are quite a few historical fiction books out there with Napoleon. A lot of them are romances, many with Josephine. Here are a few though:

Desiree by Annemarie Selinko

My Brother Napoleon by F.W. Kenyon (Caroline Murat POV)

The Emperor’s Lady by F.W. Kenyon (Josephine)

The Last Love by Thomas Constain (Betsy Balcombe and St. Helena)

The Thunderer; A Romance of Napoleon and Josephine by E Barrington

Josephine The Great Lover by Pierre Nezelof

The Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gulland

The Second Empress, A Novel of Napoleon’s Court by Michelle Moran

Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

Two Empresses by Brandy Purdy

Destiny; A Novel of Napoleon and Josephine by Betram Fields

Napoleon Series by Max Gallo (books loosely used for the A&E series) 

1. The Song of Departure 

2. The Sun of Austerlitz

3. The Emperor of Kings

4. The Immortal Man of St. Helena

Napoleon’s Last Island; A Novel by Thomas Keneally

The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (movie The Emperor’s New Clothes based on

The Princess of Nowhere, A novel by Lorenzo Borghese (Pauline Bonaparte POV)

Honorable Mention: Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo by Brian Faulkner

Honorable Mention: Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon tries his hand at being an author, supposedly based on his own love affair with Desiree Clary) 

There’s a few to start :) 

[bandcampsnoop]

7/20/25.

Micah and I were in Sacramento last night seeing Acme Rocket Quintet (they used to be Quartet) and ran into an old friend and still KDVS DJ Brian Faulkner. His show runs on Sundays afternoons from 3-6 p.m. under the name "Nothing Exceeds Like Excess". Back in the day, Brian knew something about everything, and that is still the case (just peruse some of his playlists).

Anyway, I checked out his Facebook and learned that Animal Piss, It's Everywhere (North Adams, Massachusetts) is playing in Sacramento on Wednesday, 7/23 at the venerable V Street House (1017 V. Street, Sacramento). Animal Piss, It's Everywhere's last album came out on Sophomore Lounge, so it must have come across my radar. My first impression is David Kilgour, which is a pretty amazing first impression. Meat Puppets, Huevos II and other country tinged artists come to mind as well. Their Bandcamp page mentions Gene Clark and Country Teasers.

[brianjohnspencer]

I do not think [Terence O’Neill] ever felt really at home in Ulster politics. His personal remoteness made it difficult for him to lead his party along new and difficult paths at a very crucial period in the province’s history.

Brian Faulkner

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/history-repeating-as-the-union-itself-stands-at-the-crossroads-1.3803845

[thelivedrawer]

Cartoon for academic and political commentator David McCann. Will be used on the front of his book.

[brianjohnspencer]

Terence O'Neill pays tribute to Brian Faulkner

O'Neill said in the House of Lords in March 1977: "My Lords, I should like to take this opportunity of associating myself with everything that has been said. I have just come back from ITV where, in conjunction with Jerry Fitt, I was paying a tribute to Brian Faulkner. People in Northern Ireland know that Brian Faulkner and I rather parted company a few years ago; but it was one of the happier events in my life that when he took his seat last week I had a reunion with both Brian and his wife, Lucy, and I am very happy that this should have been so. Of all the various facets of Brian's political life, I hope that he will be remembered for the great efforts he made as chairman of the Executive in the power-sharing venture to which the noble Lord has just referred. Had it been possible for the Assembly to survive, had it been possible for that power-sharing Executive to have survived, it might be that the troubles with which Lord Melchett is trying to deal today would not have reached their present peak. However, that is all a matter of history. But I hope that Brian will be remembered for his efforts there rather than for anything else. I feel that among the minority he may perhaps be recalled as the man who was the architect of internment. I hope that they will try, at this time, to forget that and to remember that this was the man who risked his political life and his political future in trying to establish a power-sharing Government. It is a tragedy that this has happened; although knowing Brian as I did and knowing that the hunting field was perhaps more important to him than anything else, I think that he probably would have been happier to end his life in this way than in ways which are so open to people in Northern Ireland. It is a great tragedy that this has happened and, once again, I should like to associate myself with the words of the speakers who preceded me." See here: http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1977/mar/03/transport-northern-ireland-order-1977#S5LV0380P0_19770303_HOL_389

[brianjohnspencer]

But we will come back to this point again. It may be called coalition, or partnership, or community government—but, whatever the name, Ulster people will realise that unless Protestants and Catholics, Unionists and Nationalists, can find a way of working together in government for the good of the Province there will be no political stability, no economic progress, and no end to violence. The only real alternative to working together is to live separately. That means repartition and a form of sectarian apartheid which will bring shame on the name of Ireland. Being an optimist and a firm believer in the basic common sense of Ulster people I am convinced that co-operation will win through. In the power-sharing Executive we showed the way and others will follow.

Brian Faulkner, May 1974 (here: http://www.irishnews.com/opinion/columnists/2015/09/11/news/people-deserve-better-than-the-current-political-farce-258673/)

[brianjohnspencer]

The Northern Ireland citizen is Irish and British; it is a question of complement, not of conflict

Brian Faulkner, 1971 (here: http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/british-or-irish-who-do-you-think-you-are-28461096.html)

[brianjohnspencer]

They have no right to the title Ireland, a name of which we are just as proud as they.

Brian Faulkner, July 12 1949 (here: http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/british-or-irish-who-do-you-think-you-are-28461096.html)