“... marital devotion and hints of what was to come. Early in December 1884, he wrote a brief note to Philip Griffiths, a 20-year-old from a wealthy family in Birmingham: ‘My dear Philip, I have sent a photo of myself for you to the care of Mr MacKay which I hope you will like and in return for it you are to send me one of ...”

“... of the wave of Eastern European Jews who fled the pogroms in the early 20th century. America, as Philip Roth wrote of his ancestors, was their Zion, not Palestine. They revered FDR and despised Joe McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, Trump’s future mentor. They were grateful for America, but their gratitude was tinged with anxiety. My paternal ...”

“... a lecture delivered on Irish radio in 1995 and published in The Great Irish Famine: The Thomas Davis Lecture Series, James Donnelly remarked thatthroughout the rest of the Famine years, the Gregory clause or ‘Gregoryism’ became a byword for the worst miseries of the disaster – eviction, exile, disease and death. When in 1874 Canon John ...”