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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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Posted on July 31, 2017September 12, 2017

Poem on Ballymanus Mine Disaster, 1943

On May 10th, 1943, a stray mine washed ashore in the Rosses of Donegal. What happened next is recounted in this Irish Times piece on a memorial unveiled in 1999:…

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