25 APRIL 1987, page 17

Is Ireland Legal?

Stan Gebler Davies examines two test cases for the Republic's constitution IN THE matter of amending their constitu- tion, an interesting document cobbled together by de Valera......

Gibbon And Cornwall

A. L. Rowse celebrates the historian's political and family ambitions HERE comes an anniversary of our greatest historian: 250 years since Edward Gibbon was born at Putney, 27......