"They flock like brittle songbirds, chorusing after her to this impressively-sized Asda..."

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"Mr Heaney was at his desk, solid as the Sugarloaf, still cheerful after a day of lectures..."

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The kindly uncle who was instrumental in the restoration of  800-year old Ballintubber Abbey

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Cross-border hands of friendship and getting to grips with Irish linguistic idiosyncracies

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Rejection-guilt subsequently mollified by the eternal good grace of this world class poet and gentleman

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Why there's something special to be found in almost all places of worship, whatever your faith, your beliefs, or none at all

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Post-war packages from Germany that make authorities nervous but were really literary treasures from the writer who made a home in Achill

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Centuries of refugees fleeing religious persecution and the Methodist who came to rest in Limerick's Golden Vale in 1765

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The wondrous varieties of life that share the waters around Co Waterford 

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An Irish-German theatrical exchange - a reminder of the vital role of culture in national identity

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