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In the Hag of Beara’s Footsteps

Aug 17, 2011 | Comments Off on In the Hag of Beara’s Footsteps

I was back on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork  recently after an absence of over a decade. I had forgotten the shock of seeing the tall remnants of the nineteenth-century copper mine at Allihies astride the rocks and the Atlantic Ocean everywhere I looked. If my words were inadequate to describe the experience of the physical landscape…

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