Dan Dare Mekon. The initial artist was Gerry Embleton, who drew Dan to resemble the original exactly, but he was quickly replaced by Ian Kennedy, who gave the hero a younger look and blond hair. The opening "Dan Dare" story was an epic, lasting 18 months, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner. It opened with a flashback to the unseen final defeat of the Mekon by the original Dan, after which he was sealed inside an artificial asteroid and exiled into space. Centuries later he was accidentally freed and returned to conquer Earth. A few years later the descendant of his
Who Is Ireland's Enemy? Who Is Ireland's Enemy? Who Is Ireland's Enemy? is an Irish poem authored by Brian O'Higgins as part of the Irish nationalist response to the First World War and became popular during the conscription crisis of 1918. It first featured in "Irish Freedom" in September 1914, in an edition entitled "Germany Is Not Ireland's Enemy"; that year the journal was suppressed by the British authorities. O'Higgins was a member of Sinn Féin (later a president of the party) and was opposed to Irishmen fighting in the First World War. O'Higgins' poem was one of the more visceral of the anti-recruitment