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Posted on October 23, 2018

‘Eels, being put into wine or beer, and suffered to die in it, he that drinks it will never endure that sort of liquor again’ 

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…

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Posted on May 6, 2018May 15, 2018

Literary graffiti in Clonmel

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…

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Posted on April 2, 2018April 3, 2018

Tory Island, poitín, and prohibition

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…

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Posted on December 24, 2017December 24, 2017

 A story for Christmas – F. Scott Fitzgerald ,  “The Lost Decade”

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…

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