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Not sure what has moved me to resurrect this old post, but here are two letters I sent to the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism from May 2010 and then May 2014 on…
The other day I spied this scrawled on a wall in Clonmel: Impressively erudite, and with correct use of apostrophes. Although I did find the need to specify that these…
Thanks to Rory Naughton who has brought this family history on the Clare Co Council library page. John Cunningham gives an interesting and entertaining account of his father Michael’s life…
When I was 14 or of 15 the Penguin Classics editions of F Scott Fitzgerald short stories made an indelible impression – to some degree the covers (which forged a…
