Robert Thornton was born in Dublin in 1944 and grew up and went to school there until the age of 15. He moved to Kent, England, in 1959, where he continued his education part-time between different career choices, including engineering apprenticeship, washing machine salesman, debt collector, military (three years) and eventually, schoolteacher and headmaster. He lives in Somerset with his wife, Veronica.
“Do you think, Sir, that Ireland should have joined the war against Germany?”“I mean, Sir, that the married women in Ireland, like me Ma, and lots of other fellas’ mothers have loads of babies and are always having to go into hospital to have them or have to feed them and wash them. The mo...