Tom Kettle: Irish War Poet and nationalist was remembered by the Irish in France on the eve of the anniversary of his death. On Sunday, September 8, 2019, the Irish Embassy and the Irish in France ...
Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...
Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...
“Poetry and the Poppy” is part of World War I and America, a two-year national initiative of the Library of America, presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the ...
Nowell Oxland was 24, when he died in 1915 days before his Cumbrian poem was published in The Times. Now his poems have been saved from oblivion, and are being celebrated in a new book called 'Chasing ...
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,And towards our ...
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Joseph Brown juggled two jobs in the early-1900s: undertaker and furniture salesman. A licensed embalmer, Brown studied mortuary science at the University of Minnesota — launching a half-century ...
Sunday is the Season 6 finale of the award-winning series “Homeland,” which attracts more than 5 million viewers. Emmy-nominated actor Rupert Friend, who stars as former CIA operative Peter Quinn, ...