“Time for school Billy”, my father shouted, I was asleep in the other room but the walls were so paper thin you could have heard a pin drop, “you too” cried out my mother. It was 1942; we lived in a 2 bedroomed cottage in the village of Glendora, a population of 16 hardy souls, [...]

IN times of yore there was a King and a Queen in the south of Ireland who had three sons, all beautiful children; but the Queen, their mother, sickened unto death when they were yet very young, which caused great grief throughout the Court, particularly to the King, her husband, who could in no wise [...]