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The Ancestor Of Concrete

Charles Saumarez Smith MRS COADE'S STONE by Alison Kelly M rs Eleanor Coade was a very re- markable woman: an entirely self-made business entrepreneur of the late-18th-cen-......

A Battle Between Cousins

Violet Powell IRELAND'S FATE: THE BOYNE AND AFTER by Robert Shepherd Aurum Press, £14.95 , pp. 256 J ust over 300 years ago a battle was fought on the River Boyne in Co. Meath.......