Articles...
Oct 18 2007
PROSPECTS for a young man, who was one of nine siblings, were probably not that great immediately after the war in Northern Ireland....
Oct 17 2007
HE WAS the flesh behind the celluloid image, but in truth it was the face on the screen which left the lasting impression....
Oct 16 2007
TO THOSE who expected their Scottish heroes to wear kilts, sprout hairs on their kneecaps and skirl a bagpipe at the first scent of haggis, he was something of a surprise....
Oct 15 2007
IT WAS built from bed slats, floorboards and bits of wire, all held together by stiff upper-lips made in Britain, but reluctantly exported to Colditz Castle, the forbidding heap of ancient stones in eastern Germany....
Oct 12 2007
MOST movie stars’ names shine in the lights, but the neon sign outside the whitewashed, single-storey building in north Hollywood had burned out....
Oct 11 2007
IT WAS deadly serious, yet sometimes there was a hint of the public school wheeze about the English officers, who foxed their German captors, often for brief periods, as Europe descended into hell....
Oct 10 2007
YOU could say he was a charming old man in his tweed cap, a relic of the old Ireland of peat fires and muddy fields; keen-eyed, sharp-featured and quite loquacious in the right company....
Oct 9 2007
ALTHOUGH he remained fervent in his Roman Catholic faith, the gentle priest, a friend to two of his denomination’s great leaders, delighted in the coming together of the Christian traditions in Liverpool....
Oct 8 2007
WHEN old jazzmen rolled into town eager to reminisce, they often bunked down at the home of the tall man with the thick grey hair and dry humour, who blew his cornet at perfect pitch on that celebrated night, more than 50 years ago, when the Cavern Club opened in Liverpool....
Oct 5 2007
HE WAS the dapper cavalier of a new Ireland, which had slipped the ancient grip of priests, peat fires, black stout, poets, bogs, Blarney men, rebel songs and little people, to surge through the butt end of the 20th century as a Celtic tiger, exciting money markets everywhere....
