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4 years

White smoke rises over St James’s Gate: traditional signal to the faithful that the pubs will be open again soon.

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Typical Cavan. They wait until the pubs are all closed to win an Ulster title. #tight

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5 years

Daniel Hannan hoisted by his own petard, again. From Private Eye.

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Stand up for the Japanese. Irish fans giving credit where it’s due. #JAPvIRE

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Apparently Wolves fans have been celebrating non-existent Brighton goals to get the Liverpool fans going & mess with their heads. Black ops from the Black Country, or Man City agents working under cover? Impressively fiendish either way.

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2 years

Desperate scenes in Dublin as hipsters queue for Bread.

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2 months

Drury Street, July evening.

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2 years

And they’re away. The annual Art O’Neill Challenge - recreating the 1592 escape - leaves Dublin Castle, facing a 60km trek over the Wicklow Mountains into the safety of Glenmalure Valley. The leaders should arrive at about 6am, if the English and the weather don’t kill them.

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5 years

Ireland committing bodies to the ruck on the train to Yokohama. Referee has a look but waves play on. #IREvSCO

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1 year

The guy beside me is on his own but he just ordered two pints. It’s that kind of game. #IREvRSA

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4 years

Fantastic by Sam Bennett. What a way to bring the green jersey home.

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7 years

The Liffey Swim today & in Jack B Yeats's painting from 1923.

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4 years

Luas on way to hospital (St James’s).

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4 years

Just back from lap of the Phoenix Park & Farmleigh. Place full of people walking, running, & cycling, singly or in couples or small family groups, but as far as I could see there was almost universal respect for the social distance rules. In other good news, it’s a glorious day.

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5 years

People you see in Dublin. The man passing on bike here is Willie Dunne, who ran the 1960 Olympic Marathon in Rome. Multiple national champ, career best 2:14.35. Now 86 & proceeding at stately pace to @DonoreHarriers in Chapelizod, where he’ll probably run a few laps on the track.

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4 years

Short and to the pint. (From today’s @ITletters )

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4 years

Looks like Dublin Castle has fallen into Mayo hands. #allirelandfinal

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3 years

Very sorry to hear of the death of Nanci Griffith. She was a bright light in the dark 1980s. Saw her in the Olympia once, c.1988, then met her sitting alone in McDonald’s Grafton St next day & said a shy hello. She seemed lovely.

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2 months

Harry Gleeson’s own fiddle playing a hornpipe at the graveside in his native village of Holycross, Co Tipperary, today where he was buried 83 years after being wrongfully executed in Mountjoy Jail. The musician is Anthony Condron.

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A surreal turn of events in the last race at Galway as Daniel Wiffin (top right on big screen) gradually overtakes the horses to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming.

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2 years

Even in extremely small print, the ticket prices for Springsteen in Dublin are grotesque.

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4 years

Car-parking erasers outside a school in Dublin’s Liberties.

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7 years

No it’s not a painting by Magritte of a tree falling to pieces. It’s a pic of starlings taking flight. Lovely work by Mark Marlow, on page 3 of today’s @IrishTimes

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4 years

Modest as the letter writer is, this “minor” correction is probably the most authoritative I’ve ever been on the receiving end of.

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6 years

This is amazing. The heatwave is effectively x-raying ancient underground monuments now.

Scorched earth during heatwave reveals new monument at Newgrange

Henge believed to have been built some 500 years after Newgrange

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2 years

“It is October all over my life and the light is staring.” An unusually sunny Patrick Kavanagh shines down from a gable wall in Carrickmacross.

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4 years

Central Dublin was like Latin Quarter Paris earlier with all the outside dining. Streets hopping with people. Only a heavy shower away from utter desolation, I know, but still great to see.

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Summer in Dublin, as the ducks of Stephen’s Green celebrate an exciting new extension of the pond. Great pic by Dara MacDónaill on the front page of today’s ⁦ @IrishTimes ⁩

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6 years

On a bus to (my home town) Carrickmacross, eavesdropping on a conversation between the driver & a very friendly woman passenger from Kerry. Kerry people are exotic things in these parts anyway. But the bus has just been electrified by news that the woman is Dáithí Ó Sé’s mammy.

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9 months

I didn’t notice ⁦ @BryanJOBrien ⁩ taking this picture of me, under a stairs and deadline pressure, in the only quiet corner of Nenagh last night. But with a better-looking model, it could nearly be a painting by Vermeer.

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6 years

My son refused to pose for pictures with the cup he won playing trumpet at the Wesley Interschools Music Festival earlier today, so I had to get a pot of jam to stand in for him.

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4 years

Never mind fishing rights. According to ⁦ @BBCNewsnight ⁩, the UK is staking a claim to Donegal. #brexitcrisis

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5 years

Am I the only non-watcher of Game of Thrones who hasn’t yet asked publicly if I’m the only one who doesn’t watch it?

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1 year

I remember that summer in Dublin

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4 years

It’s like a Samuel Beckett play, with cats.

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5 years

More suspected Russian interference in elections. According to @BBCNewsnight , the next Taoiseach could be a man called “Mikhail” Martin.

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4 years

From today’s ⁦ @ITletters ⁩. As a daily columnist on the same page, I feel his pain.

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5 years

The food alone would be a big improvement on our last imperial experience.

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5 years

How odd to see the Irish — usually so quick to take offence at any whiff of imperialism — acting as a cheerleader for French aggrandisement, says Robert Hardman

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5 years

Have walked over this a thousand times but finally passed through it today. It’s the Guinness tunnel under James’s Street, built in the 1890s by an engineer who also helped design the London Underground. His name alone would have earned him a job in a brewery: James H Greathead.

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2 years

Argentinian fans starting the celebrations early on Dublin’s Grafton St.

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The 13th century Sainte-Chapelle, Paris’s most beautiful (former) church, with its ceiling seemingly supported by walls of stained glass.

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1 year

Live from the green carpet. #IreVEng

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Can’t believe it’s 26 years since I first met her, in Holles Street Hospital.

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5 years

Japan is so well ordered that, naturally, they have contraflow lanes on footpaths leading to the rugby stadium, for people not going to the games. I’ve only been in Tokyo 24 hours and already I’m too embarrassed to jaywalk.

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6 months

Snow was general, all over Usher’s Island. #jamesjoyce #snow #sneachta

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6 years

Kirsty Wark of @BBCNewsnight asking why Theresa May would be so “thrawn” about something. Had to look it up: it’s a Scots word for “obdurate, stubborn”. Thanks to May, Corbyn, & the DUP, British politics is currently a Game of Thrawns.

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9 months

Not only is Bryan O’Brien a brilliant photographer, he’s also a nice guy. I found this in my Irish Times inbox today - a souvenir from a certain funeral in Nenagh we both covered recently. I’m quite moved.

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3 years

A bunch of my school pals at the Pope’s mass in Galway 1979. Not his best pic but Gary Sheehan is second from left, standing. He was killed four years later. I wrote about him here

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3 years

The baby sister. Am feeling simultaneously proud and old. via @IrishTimes

Bernie McNally named Department of Education secretary general

Outgoing mandarin Seán Ó Foghlú due to complete 10-year term of office this week

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3 years

The great Tomi Reichental saying Kaddish earlier at the grave of Professor Ludwig Hopf, friend and assistant of Einstein, who died in Dublin OTD in 1939.

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1 year

There won’t be a coconut milked in Fiji tonight.

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3 years

Distribution of Irish speakers in 1871. South Monaghan, the Louth/Armagh corridor, & Cooley the last holdouts in the east. @Siuners

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3 years

@FrankmcnallyIT how did I not know about this (ie the Farney Gaeltacht, not the seminar)?

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My B & B for tonight

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2 years

The traditional newspaper knock-down for Malachy Logan, who retired today after 48 years in ⁦The Irish Times, 34 of them as Sports Editor.

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5 years

And he never banned Irish Times journalists.

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2 years

@Lillylatelee @Myles_O_Reilly If they put a cap on him he’d be elected.

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6 years

The Nick Cave concert seems to be unusually popular with cyclists. Beijing-style levels of bike density in Kilmainham tonight.

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4 years

@edoloughlin A criminal mastermind is born.

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6 years

Boarded a train to Mayo hungry & fondly hoping there’d be a food trolley on board. There is, but due to crowding, they had to put two trains together, with no connecting door. The trolley woman is on the other train. It’s a tragedy of Romeo & Juliet proportions.

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5 years

Man United’s managerial appointment is a clear win for the soft Brexiters. Instead of relying on the internal market (Southgate) or unrealistic global trade deals (Pochettino), they went for the EEA route in the end, better known as the Norway option.

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5 years

This just happened in Kilmainham. It’s like a bomb hit it. Heard the bang from a café round the corner. Lucky nobody was passing it at the time.

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3 years

They’re after making a balls of that.

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⁦ @FrankmcnallyIT ⁩ insert in parentheses, I presume by sub editor at ⁦ @ObserverUK ⁩, which changes the entire meaning of that first sentence.

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Ground floor window seat in Bewley’s Grafton St. A lifetime first, if only because to be here in past years, I think, you’d have had to be part of the actual window display.

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3 years

A tree for all seasons, on Dublin’s Pembroke Road.

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5 years

Riverdance 1994 - one of those rare “Where were you?” moments that didn’t involve anyone getting killed.

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5 years

🎈It’s our birthday... 25 years ago today, #Riverdance burst onto the stage for the very first time as the interval act @Eurovision in Dublin's Point Depot 🥳, Where did you first see Riverdance?

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The final score was harsh, but that was a typically brave, disciplined performance by ⁦ @monaghangaa ⁩, who gave us a great year even though nobody had expected much from it. Disappointed but proud.

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38 years after my old school pal Gary Sheehan was killed in the Don Tidey shootout, he was today posthumously awarded a medal for bravery. The man he gave his life to save, now in his 80s, was among the audience.

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‘The goal was to free Don Tidey. And we freed Don Tidey’ – 15 gardaí decorated for bravery

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Passing ⁦ @swenyspharmacy ⁩, I peered in to wish PJ Happy Christmas. Next thing I knew I was inside drinking whiskey. Anyone who like me leaves present shopping to the last minute may be happy to note that Sweny’s is open not just today but tomorrow. Joyceans never rest.

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6 years

Extraordinary. As a baby he visited his about-to-be-executed father in Kilmainham Gaol. 102 years later, the last child of the 1916 leaders has died. And on Easter Sunday.

Last surviving child of executed 1916 leader dies

The last surviving child of an executed leader of the 1916 Rising has died at the age of 104.

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5 years

Come out ye Black and Tans.

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2 years

Think O’Gara may have had the last word here. #LEIvLAR

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2 years

A fond farewell from the great Michael Viney as he writes his last Another Life column, 45 years after the first and 61 years after he started writing for The Irish Times.

Michael Viney’s final Another Life column – more than 45 years after the first

Another Life: On the eve of its writer’s 90th birthday, the long-running natural world column draws to a close

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3 years

My (newly employed & dizzy with financial Independence) son has taken to remote-ordering packages of books, not from Amazon, but from an actual shop in town. He’s very impressed - as am I - that someone there has noticed.

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5 years

Dublin, city of lovers.

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5 years

The old bridge at Mostar, looking like the war never happened.

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2 years

A special guest appearance during the President’s Bloomsday party speech.

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6 years

Attended 9 Monaghan league & champ’ship games this yr (including Dubs in Croker & Kerry twice). Today was 1st time I saw them lose. We were a bit flat, unlucky with ref, & still only a kick away from All-Ireland Final. Disappointed tonight but also very proud. #ThankYouMonaghan

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3 years

Not sure if Banty’s doing Joey or vice versa. @monaghangaa

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1 year

⁦Monaghan minors through to an All-Ireland Final for the first time in 84 years. Grown men in tears here. One of them anyway. ⁦ @monaghangaa ⁩

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5 years

Jesus - if this escalates we may have to send in the Wolfe Tones.

Scotland warns Ireland it will force fishing boats to leave Rockall waters

Scottish minister in letter to Government says that it will deploy vessels to protect rights

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4 years

Dan-o-rama. A 360-degree view from the beach in front of Derrynane House, home of Daniel O’Connell. The rainbow was a bonus.

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9 months

Sunday morning in a coffee shop with newspapers, bookshelves, and background jazz. It’s nearly as good as Mass.

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6 years

You’d think a former international goalkeeper would appreciate the importance of a backstop.

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6 years

Have been so impressed with @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @Conservatives @itvnews with interviews in the last few days. He really knows what he is talking about and puts it across in a calm and calculated manner!

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3 years

For the day that’s in it, the Liffey Swim then and (nearly) now. #Liffeyswim

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7 years

The Liffey Swim today & in Jack B Yeats's painting from 1923.

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Magnificently dignified interview by the South African captain. I suspect there were a few shebeens here cheering them on too. #RWCFinal #ENGvSA

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5 years

Me on the White House press briefing room podium. It had to be done.

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5 years

Dublin poised delicately somewhere between summer & winter. #gloomsday2019

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4 years

I had to give John Hume a lift once. It was simultaneously a great honour and mortifying. As in all things, he was very diplomatic about the state of the car.

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MY noisy old car and the Northern peace process have a lot in common

www.irishtimes.com

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5 years

Don’t forget that Brexit Winter Time (BWT) starts tonight. The countdown clock goes back 92 days. @BBCNewsnight

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4 years

Happy Bastille Day.

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4 years

The fire is lit and, in an unexpected bonus, the almond bun is warm too. Civilisation has not fallen yet.

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6 years

Man City v Burton Albion (8-0 currently) in danger of outscoring Tyrone v Fermanagh (0-4 to 0-3). The magic of the McKenna Cup.

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7 years

@attackerman Trump’s hairdressers have found the number 666 under his comb-over?

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4 years

275 years ago OTD: France defeats a British-led alliance at the epochal Battle of Fontenoy, after a decisive late intervention by the Irish Brigade. The event is still immortalised in the names of at least 3 GAA clubs, as well as a street in Dublin where James Joyce used to live.

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4 years

An interview more eloquent than words. Sam Bennett starts by saying it hasn’t hit him yet. Then it hits him.

ITV Cycling

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🇮🇪 Pure emotion from the excellent Sam Bennett 👏 "I don't think it's hit me. You dream of it and you never think it'll happen." #TDF2020

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6 years

Michael Corcoran on radio claiming the #MUNvEXE game in Thomond is “literally on a knife-edge”. When will this negative stereotyping of Limerick end?

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6 months

The Lion in Winter. Dublin Castle, 1st March 2024. #sneachta

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4 years

After much prevarication, I dragged myself out for the Sunday 10-miler around a desolate Phoenix Park & Farmleigh. Glad now. Once I’d surrendered to the gloom, mire, & general squelchiness, the experience bordered on fun.

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5 years

Where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea. A new memorial to Percy French in the grounds of Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle, incorporating the names of his wife & daughters, waymarks from his life, and the words of his most famous song.

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2 years

Great to see the back room of @Thepalacebar21 , literary salon of 1940s Dublin, open again for Mylesday & now overseen by new portraits of Patrick Kavanagh and the man himself.

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