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A Hero Of Our Time

Tom Pocock T he correspondent as hero was a Fleet Street concept and in the second world war, with Alan Moorehead to set stan- dards, it had some substance. Even in the......

Long Shadow In The Celtic Twilight

Geoffrey Wheatcroft DE VALERA: LONG FELLOW, LONG SHADOW by Tim Pat Coogan Hutchinson, £20, pp. 772 'Great hatred, little room': Yeats caught the time and place with a phrase.......