Gravesend is also briefly mentioned in John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, noting that the fictitious town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, is named after the original Gravesend in Kent.

Shortly after Irving's trial and deposition ( 1831 ), he restarted meetings in a hired hall in London, and much of his original congregation followed him.

It contains a large collection of Irving's original furnishings and accessories.

The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father ( whom he never met ), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.

A major theme of Irving's writings since the 1980s was his belief that it had been a great blunder on the part of Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline.

Irving's self-proclaimed mission was to guide " promising young men " in Germany in the " right direction " ( Irving has often stated his belief that women exist for a " certain task, which is producing us ", and should be " subservient to men "; leading, in Lipstadt's view, to a lack of interest on Irving's part in guiding young German women in the " right direction ").

This becomes the first part of Irving's Dickensian-style tale.

They took part in a similar demonstration on 20 December 2006, the day of Irving's early release.

Martin took part in Holocaust denier David Irving's " Real History Conference 2001 " in Cincinnati, giving a lecture entitled " The Judaic Role in the Black Slave Trade "

The dance plays a part in the Dorothy Sayers short story " The Queen's Square ", and is mentioned in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.

Mrs. F. O. C DarleyIn 1848, Darley provided the drawings for the first fully illustrated edition of Irving's " Rip Van Winkle " which was printed and distributed by the American Art-Union.

* John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany mentions the narrator, John, teaching Tess of the d ' Urbervilles to high school students.

In the first edition, Irving's estimates for deaths in Dresden were between 100, 000 and 250, 000 – notably higher than most previously published figures.

Irving's book faulted the Allied leaders, most notably Winston Churchill, for the eventual escalation of war, and claimed that the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was a " preventive war " forced on Hitler to avert an alleged impending Soviet attack.

Irving was proud of the " trail of chaos " he had created at the Hamburg press conference and the attendant publicity it had brought him, and in particular took a great deal of pride in his humiliation of Trevor-Roper, whom Irving strongly disliked for his criticism of Irving's methods and conclusions.

Robert Harris, in his book Selling Hitler, suggested that an additional reason for Irving's change of mind over the authenticity of the alleged Hitler diaries was that the fake diaries contain no reference to the Holocaust, thereby buttressing Irving's claim in Hitler's War that Hitler had no knowledge of it.

Irving was a frequent speaker for the DVU in the 1980s and the early 1990s, but the relationship ended in 1993 apparently because of concerns by the DVU that Irving's espousal of Holocaust denial might lead to the DVU being banned.

The chief themes of Irving's German speeches were that the Allies and Axis states were equally culpable for war crimes, that the decision of Neville Chamberlain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that of Winston Churchill to continue the war in 1940, had been great mistakes that set Britain on a path of decline, and the Holocaust was just a " propaganda exercise ".

Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).

Upon Irving's arrival in the UK he reaffirmed his position, stating that he felt " no need any longer to show remorse " for his Holocaust views.

People in favor of changing Irving's liquor laws saw the interest in the 2008 United States Presidential Election as a catalyst for changing the laws in their favor.

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

After also acting in Liverpool, Pinero joined Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre company in London in 1876, where he acted in supporting roles for five years, and later played under the Bancrofts ' management at the Haymarket Theatre.

") There followed a 1939 production that Gielgud again directed at the Lyceum Theatre, historic for having been the professional home for Henry Irving's company.

Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.

In 1878 she joined Henry Irving's company as his leading lady, and for more than the next two decades she was considered the leading Shakespearean and comic actress in Britain.

According to Michael Holroyd's book about Irving and Terry, A Strange Eventful History, after Irving's death, Terry stated that she and Irving had been lovers and that: " We were terribly in love for a while ".

He was nearly dismissed for interpreting Irving's direction, " You must imitate me ", as an instruction to give an impersonation of the star's well-known mannerisms.

In 1892, German composed music for a production of Henry Irving's version of Henry VIII at the Lyceum Theatre, London, where he incorporated elements of traditional old English dance.

The Orkney Rangers believe this may be one source for Washington Irving's tale, because his father was an Orcadian from the island of Shapinsay and would almost certainly have known the tale.

Craven was the designer for Henry Irving's spectacular Shakespeare productions at the Lyceum Theatre.

It was Irving's failure as an " objective historian " not his right wing views that caused him to loose his libel case, as a " conscientious historian " would not have " deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence " to support his political views.

Henry Irving's first attempt at the role, at the Lyceum Theatre, London in 1875, was a failure.

This was reinforced when Workman looked at several plays by Shakespeare, which showed similar variations ( from 3. 4 to 10. 4 per page of Irving's one-volume edition ), as summarized in the second diagram on the right.

Irving's reputation as an historian was widely discredited after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books.

During the Second World War, Irving's father was an officer aboard the light cruiser HMS Edinburgh.

Irving's time as editor of the Carnival Times was controversial because of the contents of a " secret supplement " he added to the magazine.

There was consequently considerable interest in Irving's book, which was illustrated with graphic pictures, and it became an international best-seller.

At the libel proceedings against Irving, Watt declined Irving's request to testify, appearing only after a subpoena was ordered.

A note in Himmler's telephone log from 30 November 1941 saying " no liquidation " was to be the centrepiece of Irving's efforts in Hitler's War to prove that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust

Sydnor remarked that Irving's statement that the Einsatzgruppen were in charge in the death camps seems to indicate that he was not familiar with the history of the Holocaust, as the Einsatzgruppen were in fact mobile death squads who had nothing to do with the death camps.

Evans ' report was the most comprehensive, in-depth examination of Irving's work: