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Cormac MacConnell - The West's Awake

Still at Home on Vacation
I AWOKE at the crack of dawn in West Cork a fortnight ago. We were near Clonakilty in the home of one of the Dutch Nation’s many friends en route to spend a week in the home of another friend in the Italian Alps.

A Batty Summer in Clare

WHAT is it about Co. Clare and bats? I know we are entering the silly season in this business, but a story popped up in front of me onscreen this morning in our Clare that amazed me in the light of an e-mail which had arrived minutes earlier from our

Handy Irish Holiday Tips

I THINK it is time again for my annual hints for first time visitors to our Emerald Isle. It is truly emerald of all shades in these venerable June days, truly beautiful in a gently enchanting way.

A Summertime Double

THE lazy, hazy, crazy days are here again in all their golden glory. They are especially crazy for me just now because my doppelganger Professor Mark Feinstein and his wife Carol are over for a few weeks.

Our Changing Irish Times

THE times they are a-changin’ . . . I parked my car in the carpark beside Galway City Cathedral last Saturday afternoon. It cost *4 to park for the day. You could not pay a lesser fee.

The Truth About Adam and Eve

SOMETHING serious, thought Father Ahern, as he saw big Straight Dillon coming up to the door of the parochial house under his wide-brimmed hat.

The Beauty of Irish Life

COUPLES love to get married in the little Carrygerry Chapel a few hundred yards down the road from the cottage. It is easy to see why, especially in Maytime of the blossoms. We were married there ourselves nearly a decade ago now.

The Beauty of an Irish Spring

THE longer I live the more I am touched to the heart by the exquisite manner in which the Irish year unfolds itself during the last days of April and the first week or May.

Nothing Like a Turf Fire

JIMMY White my neighbor arrived over to the cottage door earlier this evening with a bag of real turf, cut by hand in his native Co. Limerick. We live in an age where a bag of handcut turf is a gift to be savored.

Tragedy and History in Death

TWO deaths have touched me to the core in recent days. One was the death near enough in his time and season of 84-year-old Paddy Hillery, the former president of Ireland.

A Secret in the Grave

A MAGUIRE man who was a boy when I was a boy got a heart attack last week and died in seconds with at least one secret untold for certain.

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