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West Ham United's move to the new Olympic Stadium ended a 114-year stay at the Boleyn Ground at Upton Park. With full access to The Times newspaper archive and stunning photography, lifelong West Ham fan and sports journalist John Dillon has created the definitive history of the ground the club first played at in 1902.

This book is a speech given by John Dillon, an Irish nationalist politician, before the Queen's Bench in 1888. The speech concerns a land reform campaign known as the Plan of Campaign, which aimed to protect Irish farmers from predatory landlords. The book includes several appendices, including a letter from Charles Stewart Parnell, another prominent Irish nationalist.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This reprint of John Dillon's speech delves into the terrible events that took place in Mitchelstown, Ireland in 1887, where three protesters were shot dead by police. Dillon's speech is an important document of resistance to colonial power and the struggle for independence.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This book details the RAF's preparation for - and execution of - the bombing campaign against Egyptian targets during the Suez War of 1956.

The Lockdown Papers is a miscellany of satire, reflection and analysis of Irish life over five decades from academic and columnist John Dillon. When Ireland went into lockdown in March 2020, the author availed of the down time provided to compile a selection of his social and political essays, ranging from his first interview with Kenya''s Jomo Kenyatta in 1963 to his take on the Greek financial crisis in 2012.Mainly taken from the pages of national newspapers for which he wrote over five decades, it also contains more philosophical reflections and personal essays that deliver a singular and often mischievous view of life that makes this compendium both thought provoking and amusing.A plum read for anybody stuck in 2021''s extended Covid lockdown, the author looks back at former dark times in Ireland and gives the reader a fair few laughs along the way.  In it, you''ll read his irreverent thoughts on GUBU, the various Tribunals, the Right to Life, fatherly bishops and many more issues that fired Irish passions in the eighties and nineties. John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) in Trinity College Dublin. Prior to that, after graduating from Oxford, he spent some years in Ethiopia, and was a member of the Classics Department of the University of California, Berkeley until 1980. His chief area of interest is the philosophy of Plato and the tradition deriving from him, but he has always had an interest in more popular forms of writing as well, together with a weakness for practical politics. He has penned and edited many academic books, more about which can be found on his website. His most recent book is a second edition of his literary novel, The Scent of Eucalyptus, published in 2019 by 451 Editions.  This is his first book of essays.

This book covers the major battles of the war, not all of them on the Western Front, through the experiences of the battalions of the York and Lancaster Regiment.

A third collection of articles that covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of "The Great Tradition". It covers subjects that range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond.

Gathers together a series of widely-scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship - "The Golden Chain" - from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism. The main emphasis is on the first three centuries AD.