South of the BorderIt is autumn 1942, and young Balbriggan teacher Matt Duggan arrives on his first posting at the small town of Rathisland in the Irish midlands, barely alive to the global war raging outside. Lawn tennis alternates with Church and classroom politics, as rehearsals take place for a staging of Hamlet. Beneath the surface are pockets of support for Germany, and plans afoot to link up with the Wehrmacht. Matt has a mesmerizing first encounter with nineteen

in Normandy

while offering indispensable advice on the trade

With his nephew

founder of the world movement for the protection of animals

It was fitting

her body is a seductive bridge between the pair

nineteenth-century fiction

and introduce a new generation of readers to this skilled scourge of Irish society

where he was briefly held hostage in his family home at Lansdowne Road during the 1916 Rising

driving - Robert O'Byrne gives witty and urbane advice on how best to behave with style in the twenty-first century in Mind Your Manners

Ireland 1913

Gerard Dillon