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...The writer Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin was at school and college in Cork in the early 1960s and she remembers the gallows humour of girls joking about boys they fancied: “I’d do Bessboro’ for him.”...
...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...Gallows humour — seemingly a necessary coping mechanism for those in the industry — leavens the weighty subject, yet the tone remains more reverent than other books covering similar ground, such as Mary...
...He now lives with her best friend and her sister, their children Matthew and Mary, all of them slum-dwellers scratching a desperate living....
...Within the seaside bars and hotels there was more than a whiff of gallows humour in the air....
...He had also painted Protestant gentry such as Sir Peter Carew who, on the accession of the Catholic Mary, was involved in a botched rising....
...The reward for persistence is a glimpse of some puzzling and disturbing scene – in “Iscariot Blues”, for instance, a shadowy figure hangs from the gallows beneath an arbour of drooping vegetation....
...Leaps of faith: 19th-century rationalists and the Bible Before she became a famous novelist with the pen-name George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans translated David Friedrich Strauss’s controversial 1835 book Das...
...It features significant pieces of medieval religious art – one highlight is an early 14th-century French ivory triptych depicting the life of the Virgin Mary....
...After Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Kentish uprising, the streets of Mary’s capital were planted with gallows, hastily cleared before her Spanish bridegroom arrived. Mary became increasingly anxious....
...Like the Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole (“I have good Scotch blood coursing in my veins”), she has absorbed a good deal of planter prejudice....
...If you look into the churchyard of St Mary Redcliffe you will find a bit of iron girder stuck crookedly in the grass: it was hurled there by a bomb explosion in an air raid, and a plaque tells you so....
...Cronenberg took charge of the direction, reintroducing some of the unsavoury elements one recalls from the film and airing the proceedings with welcome shafts of gallows humour....
...The rest of us found time for a gallows smile during another, shorter interview section, with suspected polonium purveyor Andrei Lugovoi....
...But disfavour, even hinted, has a gallows sound. A young officer makes an anti-communist joke, seemingly egged on by his senior. Then the senior says: “Name? Rank? Department?”...
...At 86, the British philosopher Mary Midgley has probably been around long enough to note any recent signs of moral progress, at least in Britain. Does she think people are getting nicer?...
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