... war in 1914. When we meet we talk about horses and Ireland luxuries today, since few Irishmen seem to be able to afford them (otherwise why would you meet so many Irishmen abroad and afoot?). He has not left France since World War One, and when he speaks ...

... stories in the war. In 1943, in Cairo, I read in the Egyptian Gazette an item picked up from the Dallas County Observer. Two Irishmen (it said) quarrelled and were going to fight a duel with pistols. One was a tall, very fat man, the other a short, skinny ...