When we were children, we used to go to UCD to collect conkers. I remember Mum laughing, saying ‘I hope they’re not the only trophies you take home from here’. She was laughing because a) we lived right beside it and b) she felt confident we’d bag as many letters after our names as we …
School Days Over
There is a town in Western Central France called Oradour Sur Glane. It has been preserved as an abandoned village since World War II when all 642 inhabitants were marched to the town square and massacred by German troops. President Charles De Gaulle ordered that it be left exactly as it stood on 10th June …
