When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the wa

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary mo

"This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn