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The Lessons Of History

F. S. L. Lyons Dublin 'All a poet can do today is warn.' Wilfred Owen's reflection on the pity of war applies with equal force to the Irish historian asked to comment on the......

The End Of A Revolt

Richard West The climax of the Peasants' Revolt came in London, in June 1381, when the boy king, Richard II, confronted the mob and talked them, some would say tricked them,......