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How John McGahern wrote: âEverything begins in a copy book. Every draft would be by handâ (opens the original)
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I am standing in an anonymous room in the James Hardiman Library at the University of Galway, where Barry Houlihan, the institutionâs archivist, has brought some boxes from storage downstairs. The contents are spread out on tables and cushions. I am looking down the well of decades, back to an era when people wrote letters, and sent them through the post; to a time when John McGahern wrote his first drafts, in tiny handwriting, in Capital Standard Exercise school copy books, his spare, austere
Patrick Bergin, co-star of Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy, seeks buyer for Offaly castle (opens the original)
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Back in 1991, the Irish actor Patrick Bergin scared the bejaysus out of cinema audiences when he co-starred with Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy. His role as the coercive and creepy stalker husband to Roberts, then on the cusp of her megawatt fame, deservedly remains a classic. Very shortly after, he bought Emmel Castle in Co Offaly, which he and his wife, Helen Goldin, are now putting on the market 35 years later. âItâs a big place for two of us, and we are not getting younger,â
Actor Olwen Fouéré: âI firmly believe we are in the last days of the Anthropoceneâ (opens the original)
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I am overall an agreeable person as long as we are communicating and making an effort to understand one another. However, I am far less agreeable when I see evidence of injustice or inequality. I think we all suffer from a massive ignorance of the harm our everyday actions and thoughts can cause. My middle names are Marie George. I love my middle names. Marie was traditionally given as a middle name to all children, male and female, in my family. George was the name of my motherâs father and h
The Tipperary walled town: âThe bars on the windows arenât decorative â they kept the cows outâ (opens the original)
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Fethard in Co Tipperary has the âmost complete medieval town wallâ in Ireland, according to the map provided during a visit earlier in the summer. But it is not the only notable thing about this charming rural town. The famous Coolmore Stud is only a couple of kilometres out the road, and what local people refer to as âhorse moneyâ is evident before even getting out of the car. A van with Coolmore branding is quickly spotted driving over a bridge. Sadlerâs cafe and restaurant is full o
âThereâs a murder hole up thereâ: The 600 year old fortress in a Co Galway walled town (opens the original)
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When you hear the placename Athenry, the image that springs to mind likely relates to fields. Pete St Johnâs 1979 composition The Fields of Athenry is responsible for the association, but thereâs much more to the Co Galway town than that. Athenry is, according to the Irish Walled Towns Network, one of our best-preserved medieval towns. A significant proportion of its 14th century town walls, built some 600 years before St John had his moment, still exist. Lifelong friends Anne Zonenblick and
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