This work includes Behan's complete dramatic works in English, three-full length plays and three one-act plays, with biographical details on Behan and the Irish Republican Movement.

Alan and Mary McQueen Simpson introduce this selection from Jane Carlyle's letters with an assessment of her character, her marriage to 'my Man of Genius' Thomas Carlyle and her art of letter writing. The letters are arranged in sections corresponding to the main themes in her life. The selection begins with the strange, prolonged courtship; portraits, conscious and unconscious, of herself and her husband follow; much is about running the Chelsea house at 5 Cheyne Row, protecting Carlyle from noise, neighbours and bedbugs; a whole section is devoted to a Dickensian succession of mostly awful...

Extreme problems call for bold solutions, and that is exactly what is presented in The Moment of Truth. No area is spared and no ideas are too self conscious for this bi-partisan, politics aside attempt to truly solve what has become a deficit crisis; cuts to Social Security benefits, increases in the retirement age, and tax hikes to name a few. Huge slashes in discretionary spending without sparing defense and the elimination of the employer-tax exclusion for health care and the mortgage-interest deduction are among the sacrifices and compromises called for here. It begs the question of how...