In 2001 my old school friend Ann Shaw bought South Reen Farm, which was adjacent to her home on Blind Harbour. Ann stopped in to tell Mary O’Sullivan, an elderly neighbour whom Ann had known since she was a child forty years earlier, about the purchase. Over a cup of tea, Mary shared a schoolbook […]
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Published in “The London Times” on Christmas Eve, 1846. “To His Grace, Field Marshall, The Duke of Wellington. My Lord Duke, Without apology or preface, I presume so far to trespass on your Grace as to state to you, and, by the use of your illustrious name, to present to the British public the following […]
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