Mankind is threatened by normal microbial life in 2014 crossing the species barrier from fruit bats to humans, particularly when the ebola virus, disturbed by new roads entering primeval jungle and then overtaking human slums in Conakry, Guinea, Freetown, Sierra Leone and in Monrovia, Liberia. This book documents the response to ebola, flu, bubonic plague and other pathogens.

Russia and Germany, two totalitarian regimes fought a vicious relentless war for a full four years with tragic results for civilians, POWs and all combatants.

Grossdeutschland Division, the premier German WW2, formation fought on the Eastern Front from 1941-45 with campaigns against the Red Army at Moscow, Rzhev, Dnieper, Kursk, Belgorod, East Prussia, Memel and Pillau where the Division was decimated.

Bees are vital for the pollination of fruit and vegetables representing 70% of food produced for mankind's consumption. Bees are industrious, devoted to the well being of the hive and can be managed by beekeepers to produce honey which is stored by the bees for surviving the winter dormancy period.

General Thomas Francis Meagher created the 69th New York City Infantry Regiment that formed part of the Irish Brigade which Meagher commanded and led at Antietam and Fredericksburg in 1863.

W.B. Yeats was a poet, nationalist and a Senator during the early days of the Irish Free State 1922-28 (Saorstat Eireann) during which time he delivered mischievous speeches to an alarmed Senate on divorce, the Lane paintings and on Joyce's Ulysses.

Can faith be an idol? Can the state grant freedom? What about wealth? No King but God takes up the revolutionary cry found on the lips of Jesus and his contemporaries in the first century to argue that we need the same desire to see God as King in all areas of our lives. From the marginal and prophetic perspective of the Isle of Man, and informed by a decade of pioneering work among the homeless, five contemporary idols are unmasked. The church is given a provocative challenge to embody an alternative. The response to the idols of faith, freedom, the state, wealth, and the individual is not...

Ireland, within a century of the Easter Rising of 1916, fully engages with the world as an independent nation fully justice oriented and committed to human rights. Irish people are found in most countries of the world welcome for their disarming humour.