mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Michael Sheridan

10 RAGING RUGBY BULL David Storey, the son of a Welsh miner, was a squad member of Leeds Rugby League Club for five years in the mid-1950s, the earnings from ...

mobi |eng | 1111-01-15 | Author:Brendan Behan

Quis non posset contristari, Christi Matrem contemplari Dolentum cum Filio? Is there one that wouldn’t weep. With Christ’s Mother’s inner grief, Staring up there, tearless, dumb? Where’s the man that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Brendan Behan

written as high as the neon sign over Larne Harbour, ‘Welcome to sunny Ulster, the wages of sin is death’. ‘But thon talk and jokes of theirs is animalism. A ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Celine Roberts [Roberts, Celine]

ELEVEN A Place to Call Home THE NEW YEAR of 1978 dawned. I decided to try and put 1977 behind me. I had lost two babies but I really wanted ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michka Assayas & Michka Assayas

11. ADD ETERNITY TO THAT Our next telephone call took place a week after the Madrid train bombings that left 191 commuters dead and more than 1,800 wounded on March ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

My dearest Dervla, There is no need to tell you that Charlie Kerins met his death with the greatest possible courage and bravery. I was allowed to visit him on ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Tyrrell [Tyrrell, Peter]

11 I Leave Letterfrack My term is up about June 1932. Although it’s only January 1931,I call this my last year, hoping they will let me ‘go out’ before I ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Mary Beard

Comments The style guide of the Guardian newspaper has this entry: ′innocent civilians: the adjective is superfluous′ MICHAEL BULLEY Weren′t Marcus Aurelius′ campaigns against the Germans defensive rather than offensive? ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Edna O'Brien [O'Brien, Edna]

But there were excitements and surprise visits, as one night in their bedroom, with all their clutter and paraphernalia, painted soldiers laid out on trays for battle yet to be, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Neil McKenna [McKenna, Neil]

On a gilded barge `I don't think England should be represented abroad by an unmarried man ... it might lead to complications.' Colonel Dansey's decision, taken very reluctantly, not to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Edna O'Brien [O'Brien, Edna]

But there were excitements and surprise visits, as one night in their bedroom, with all their clutter and paraphernalia, painted soldiers laid out on trays for battle yet to be, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Nice Bit of Crêpe ‘There was nothing basically new in the latest London Designers Collection for Export … Very little handling of new colour … One inch ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

The King burst into loud lamentations and exchanged his royal robes for sackcloth and ashes, behaving more like a friend than the sovereign of the dead man. At times he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

11 Shall I die without justice? ON THE DAY of Queen Katherine’s funeral, Chapuys noticed Henry paying marked attention to ‘Mrs Semel [sic]’ and giving her ‘very large presents’. During ...

epub |eng | 1999-06-02 | Author:Malachy McCourt [McCourt, Malachy]

154 MALACHY McCOURT He was a lively lad, this Malachy William. He arrived with a great yell, I was told, and I know he didn't stop yelling for quite a ...