24 JANUARY 1987, page 30

Keeping The Anglo-irish Alive

Derek Mahon TWILIGHT OF THE ASCENDANCY by Mark Bence - Jones Constable, L14.95 E veryone loves the Anglo-Irish, espe! ially the Irish, who take an indulgent. If slightly......

Pomp And Family Circumstance

Peter Levi HOW LORD BIRKENHEAD SAVED THE HERALDS by Anthony Wagner HMSO, f2.50 S ir Anthony Wagner, surely the most scholarly historian to have belonged to the College of......

In Roy Jenkins's Review Last Week Of The Wise Men

the second sentence in the final paragraph should have read: 'They were the agents of the first of the super powers, dealing across the trench of carnage and poverty to which......