“... Ulster radicals who wrote about Tipu Sultan of Mysore when he resisted British rule in 1799, or Murray Pittock on Mangan’s ‘The Caramanian Exile’ (which draws parallels between the British and Ottoman empires), or James Quinn on the travel memoirs and historical writing of the militant nationalist John Mitchel after he was transported to Bermuda, the ...”

“... early 1990s, her own work, that of Gillian and that of their cousin the theatre director Braham Murray, all converged on the Holocaust: Jacqueline with her work on Sylvia Plath, Braham with a concentration camp version of Macbeth and Gillian with a chapter in The Broken Middle on the ‘New Political Theology – Out of Holocaust and ...”

“... the Kellys, who came to Boston from Ireland before the Second World War. Eileen married Ronald Charles Spahr of Philadelphia, the son of German immigrants, and in the late 1950s the couple moved to a three-bedroom colonial house in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which is fairly close to Philadelphia. Everyone you ask speaks of the Spahrs as a classic American ...”