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Philip Orr
"I remember trudging the streets with two or three pals hoping to get Lisburn changed into a nuclear-free zone!"
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In July 1982, Philip Orr was sitting on a park seat in Moscow observing the Stalinist architecture, the soldiers and 'the enemy' when out of nowhere, a women and a little girl came and sat down right next to him. Were these people the enemy or actual human beings like you and me?
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Since his experience of the hurts of cold war division in Moscow 1982 Phillip went on to study the divisions of the Great War and wrote books on the futility of campaigns such as the Somme and Gallipoli. The book titles are The Road to the Somme, Blackstaff Press, 1987 and A Field of Bones - an Irish Division at Gallipoli, Lilliput Press, 2006.
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