Foley's AsiaWhile an anarchist group blows up the equestrian statue of General Gough in Dublins Phoenix Park during the 1950s, the narrator recalls his mothers Kiplingesque tales of childhood in India, recreating the atmosphere and events of the Irish abroad in the service of the British Empire. The life of John Henry Foley (1818 1874), Queen Victorias favourite sculptor, is interwoven with those of some of his principal subjects, Hardinge, Montgomery, Outram and

The gradual decline in the use of the river for commercial trade saw it entering a trough until recent years

*Please note that this first edition (1991) has minor signs of foxing

‘You feel the language of Youth in your very pulse

with over eighty full-colour plates

Irish Independent \n \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n \nJOHN MONTAGUE was born in Brooklyn

It is tradition

Would she allow a sense of hopefulness to creep upon her when she finds out that a baby is on the way

She was also the first woman ever elected to Parliament and to hold a Cabinet position

Those who arrived at Trinity in the nineties are the generation that came of age in an Ireland caught between the grim

‘Family Matters’ addresses the Butler clan at home and abroad

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they render history in the making