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Literary Mayo and A Half-Dozen Texts

Jun 2, 2011 | Comments Off on Literary Mayo and A Half-Dozen Texts

It looks like good weather for the holiday weekend in Ireland. Time for breaks and trips. I like to link text and place when travelling. As I’m heading off to County Mayo, I thought I would pull together – in a fairly random way – some of my favourite texts linked to some wonderful Mayo…

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Writing Too Much About Carrigskeewaun

Apr 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Writing Too Much About Carrigskeewaun

Michael Longley’s new volume A Hundred Doors is slim and snug and almost weightless in the hand. He returns again, almost apologetically, to a place that changed his life: ‘I am writing too much about Carrigskeewaun.’ He is there for the millennium, at Christmas, at lambing time, and – for the first time – with his new…

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