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Based outside Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, is a herd of rare-breed suckler cows which is composed primarily of registered full-blood Wagyu genetics. Oliver

By Oliver O’Hanlon The film Saving Private Ryan was inspired by real-life stories. Readers will remember how Tom Hanks’ character was sent to the front lines in Normandy to rescue the eponymous Private Ryan, who was played by Matt Damon. The story went that Ryan was the last remaining of his four siblings who were serving in the U.S. army and as such, he should be excused from active service and brought back from the front lines to the safety of his family in America. This is known as the ‘Sole Survivor Policy’ and it was created following the awful experience of real American famili...

The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011. The letters from members of the Irish community in Bordeaux and their relatives, friends and trading partners in Ireland communicate the concerns and understandings of ordinary people in a diasporic community during wartime. Written by sailors, merchants, servants, prisoners of war, priests, clerks, and many women, the letters vi...