At the dawn of a new era in Irish-Scottish relations, as Ireland prepares to shake hands with an old friend, Scotland continues to stand in the hush of Joyce, demanding a fair hearing.
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SOME SURPRISES IN THIS LIST OF ‘GREAT ACTORS’
Maureen O’Hara is Ireland’s most famous redhead was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford before she became the “Queen of Technicolor” in various swashbuckling adventures. Never even nominated for a competitive Oscar, but deservedly received an honorary award in 2014.
BOOK REVIEW: SPECIAL READ FOR FATHER’S DAY
In Ulysses, Stephen describes his father, Simon, in words that fit Joyce’s father, John Stanislaus Joyce: “A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a storyteller, somebody’s secretary, something in a distillery, a taxgatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.”
BOOKS: THE TARTAN PIMPERNEL
Sir Derek revealed that Dr Caskie, who was nicknamed the Tartan Pimpernel by the BBC, ensured that families in Britain were aware that their loved ones were still alive.
WHY ARE THE PRESS ALWAYS BLAMED?
It struck me, during the height of the Dominic Cummings scandal, just how absurd things had got. Here was the UK Government, mired in a scandal of double-standards and hypocrisy amid the pandemic, and yet the press was somehow in the firing line.
NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY
Men went to work in the shipyards and factories with ‘pieces’ in their pocket, wrapped in greaseproof paper, which was usually the wrapping off a sliced plain loaf. Pan loaves were for posh people, who didn’t like dark crusts.