Harrap Columbus

During a lecture tour of America, Charles Dickens stopped off at Toronto, where he experienced a feeling which rapidly grew into repulsion: "The wild and rabid Toryism and the bigoted Puritanism of Toronto are, I speak seriously, appalling " He would never take back those words. He was never to...

INTRODUCTION Landscape and people are what bring most visitors to Ireland - South and North. And once there, few are disappointed by the reality of the stock Irish images: the green, rain-hazed loughs and wild, bluff coastlines, the inspired talent for talk and conversation, the easy pace and...