Collection includes Duke of Windsor and Field Marshall Montgomery.

EMIGRATION is again one of the biggest problems facing this country.

BBC viewers voted Winston Churchill as ‘Britain’s Greatest’. He is remembered as the man who saved them during the Second World War, but he was undoubtedly one of Ireland’s greatest scourges. As Minister for War in 1920 he was the politician most responsible for the Black and Tans.

ALTHOUGH it has become somewhat trendy to denigrate the leadership of Éamon de Valera, he led by magnificent example both at home and on the world stage in the 1930s.

THE order in which siblings are born could play a significant role in determining whether they become the next Judi Dench or Tony Blair, a survey has found.

EVEN in death the memory of one of Cork’s great characters lives on — in style.

NEXT Friday’s Mooney Show on RTÉ Radio 1 will celebrate the work of the legendary wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough. The great man himself will be in studio.

THE face-off between Eamon de Valera and Winston Churchill in this week’s Hidden History TV programme on RTÉ 1 was a case of hiding history and promoting distortion.

IN his letter headlined ‘Neither fascism nor saving the Jews was Britain’s aim’ (Sept 10), Tim O’Halloran says “there is a subtle rewriting of history that suggests the Allies were trying to save the Jews”.

IT’s all of half a century now since President John F Kennedy declared: “October 23, 1956, is a day that will live forever in the annals of free men and nations.

FOR all its carefully-won reputation around the world as a model of probity and fairness, over the decades the BBC has managed to annoy British governments of pretty much every political persuasion.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken the biggest political gamble of his premiership in backing President George Bush on war with Iraq.