But there was also a Pooteresque world of clerks and shopkeepers who lived in the primly respectable townships south of the capital, and whose existence might easily be forgotten were it not for the evidence of church records and the admission books of Orange lodges.

But love-bombing, the Unionists couldn't handle. The long arm of 'friendship' is much more insidious. Irish nationalism takes many forms and peacespeak is just one of them.

Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.

[T]hey hoisted him up to the ridge pole and lighted the fire; they began to haka, when they were tired of that they sang songs, […]