Ian Paisley’s journey is extraordinary for the sheer
distance it has spanned, a journey unequalled in
Irish history. But why did Paisley
do it? Why did he put aside years of hostility to all
things Irish, Nationalist and Catholic to go int...
“British soldiers were bellying along the gutters, then across the bridge, past dead and dying comrades. Some of them, goggle-eyed, spluttering, legs jerking, tongues stiffening, slithered in agony in all directions like hooked fishes on a bank .....
Solves the mystery surrounding the ambush and killing of Michael Collins.
The author Meda Ryan drawing on eye-witness accounts never before published, painstakingly reconstructs, in minute-by-minute detail, the last four days of Michael Collin...
In a telling phrase, Bryan MacMahon quotes the saying that "a teacher leaves the track of his teeth on a parish for three generations."
There is no doubt that his work has been for the good not merely of his native area, but also of his pupils...