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A Black Hearse

Hilary Corke THE OXFORD BOOK OF IRELAND edited by Patricia Craig OUP, £18.99, pp. 514 P ound at the turn of the century once wrote an essay On the Non-Existence of Ireland. His......

Those In Peril On The Sea

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