... orders for Ulysses were arriving from Britain - Winston Churchill was one of the first to put his name down - North and South America, Spain, Africa and even China, she found herself constantly dipping into her own meagre funds to support the Joyce family ...

... nostalgic hippie and flower power dresses to the radical, aggressive and menacing leather bondage styles of punk. Meanwhile in America, sportswear pioneered by designers like Claire McCardell, continued its relentless rise. The First World War made tea gowns ...

... ownership in a company as a fair means of rewarding workers. And then a friend gave me a book that I longed for, published in America, that had not yet arrived in Irish shops. She had ordered it up on her computer, through a company called Amazon.com, paid ...

... next century will undoubtedly see a New World Cristal, RD ' or Krug emerge. Possibly from somewhere rather high in South America or Tasmania. And don't exclude Eastern Europe. Early this century, the top Italians will be amongst the most fashionable wines ...

... I'd cut off all diplomatic rela- This was a truly historic achievement what an offside flag is. - Ron Atkinson tions with America. - Lewis's manager (or French rugby. We brought the head on Newcastle's Temuri Kosbaia who Frank Maloney of northern hemisphere ...

... conversation again.) I couldn't see how Irish cement would make my fortune. It's an international company, he said, North America is building roads to beat the band, and the Irish government was about to devote half its budget to roads. CRH has gone up ...

... Sinatra as the most talented. Lennon as the most troubled. The preening Dylan set out to portray himself as the Pied Piper of America's young. He may have taken the high moral ground early in his career, but why oh why did it always have to be so windy up ...

... the stability of Russia is set to be centre of attention in the new year WHAT a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago America was reeling from the Monica Lewinsky affair and Bill Clinton had become the first US president to be impeached by the House ...

... mean a virtual collapse of Sinn Fein electoral support, and a rejection of the republican position all over Ireland and in America. I believe the tide is at the flood, and beginning to ebb. This is the hour. Harris. the lateral thinker ...

... not that he has slowed down but that he has become institutionalised. So many people for so long have proclaimed him to be America's greatest living director that he has become trapped in his He'll tell you: My movies are what I am. He'll tell you: I ...

... Tour qualifying school, but then Nolan laughed all the way back to the big tour. Tour qualifiers are not normai events. In America they refer to it as the 'torture chamber and no tournament cultivates a healthier disregard for reputations. The more you ...

... and apart from Louis Stewart and the composer (at the piano, of course), it is expertly executed by a cast of West Coast America's finest jazz musicians. Bobby Shew is positively resplendent. both in the tightly observed ensemble playing and in lyrical ...