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Posted on January 18, 2018August 30, 2018

Reading on the bus: a literary bus conductor from Arnold Bax’s Farewell My Youth.

(edit August 30th – (edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of…

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Posted on January 14, 2018August 30, 2018

“woefully unstable and vain”: Darrell Figgis, forgotten and despised man of the Irish Revolution

(edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on a strange experience in Dunfanaghy and here on a literary bus conductor. And I feature a seasonal…

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Posted on January 13, 2018August 30, 2018

Hearing secret harmonies in Dunfanaghy – Arnold Bax in Donegal, from “Farewell My Youth”

(edit 30th August 2018 – (edit 30th August 2018 – for further extracts from Arnold Bax’s “Farewell My Youth”, see here on the forgotten and despised man of the Irish revolution,…

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