Michael Manning

General Thomas Francis Meagher created the 69th New York City Infantry Regiment that formed part of the Irish Brigade which Meagher commanded and led at Antietam and Fredericksburg in 1863.

Mankind is threatened by normal microbial life in 2014 crossing the species barrier from fruit bats to humans, particularly when the Ebola virus, disturbed by new roads entering primeval jungle and then overtaking human slums in Conakry, Guinea, Freetown, Sierra Leone and in Monrovia, Liberia. This book documents the response to Ebola, flu, Bubonic plague and other pathogens. Updated Ebola Viral Disease outbreak in DRC and Congo with crucial updates on Covid-19 2020 and the future of mankind.

Russia and Germany, two totalitarian regimes fought a vicious relentless war for a full four years with tragic results for civilians, POWs and all combatants.

Grossdeutschland Division, the premier German WW2, formation fought on the Eastern Front from 1941-45 with campaigns against the Red Army at Moscow, Rzhev, Dnieper, Kursk, Belgorod, East Prussia, Memel and Pillau where the Division was decimated.

Rehbein is a fictional character yet he was involved in the turmoil of the Eastern Front which was not generally known to western historians, yet, he survived. North Africa, Yugoslavia, the Berlin underworld, Smolensk/Katyn, Warsaw, Breslau and Soviet captivity encapsulated Rehbein's criminal investigations 1941-45

Ireland, within a century of the Easter Rising of 1916, fully engages with the world as an independent nation fully justice oriented and committed to human rights. Irish people are found in most countries of the world welcome for their disarming humour.

In welcoming refugees from Syria, European countries are showing the world what mercy looks like. But mercy, surely, doesn’t stop there. What if the United States followed Germany’s lead and offered mercy to the throngs of Central Americans who seek to cross its southern border? What does mercy look like in relation to the 2.2 million people being held in US prisons and jails? Or the working poor unable to adequately care for their families? Or the millions of children paying the bitter price of the sexual revolution and its erosion of lifelong marriage? The diverse contributors to this issue of Plough Quarterly focus on how people of faith, by extending forgiveness and mercy, are transforming lives – and perhaps even the course of world events. Perspectives from Philip Yancey, Gerhard Müller, Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Charles E. Moore, Eva Mozes Kor, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Williams, Hashim Garrett, Michael Manning, Kim Hyun-sik, Graham Greene, Julian of Norwich, and Eberhard Arnold are sure to stimulate reflection and discussion. And as always, the magazine is illustrated with world-class art by the likes of Ferdinand Hodler, Camille Pissarro, Rembrandt, Fra Angelico, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Fritz von Uhde, Jon Redmond, Balázs Boda, Allan Rohan Crite, and Jason Landsel. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.

Bees are vital for the pollination of fruit and vegetables representing 70% of food produced for mankind's consumption. Bees are industrious, devoted to the well being of the hive and can be managed by beekeepers to produce honey which is stored by the bees for surviving the winter dormancy period.

W.B. Yeats was a poet, nationalist and a Senator during the early days of the Irish Free State 1922-28 (Saorstat Eireann) during which time he delivered mischievous speeches to an alarmed Senate on divorce, the Lane paintings and on Joyce's Ulysses.