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Doing the Vatican Rag
After Catriona and I left our local convent school in Barnes, there was a real problem about where to send us: in the ‘60s it was...


Birthdays and Other Landmarks
This time of year always stimulates my nostalgia response: the defining colours of Autumn, three significant birthdays (my daughter...


Noises Off
It must have been about the tenth toaster we had: I don’t know why we went through toasters at such a rate; but from the earliest version...


Background Noises
The musical backdrop to our lives was an ever-present soundtrack, something that quite unconsciously, I internalised over the years: both...


Early Days
Most of us are interested in other people – the pattern of their lives, the dramatis personae of their personal histories; and for many...


Before Achill
There's BC, and there's AD; and then there's BA. Before Achill. In the early '60s, before we were permanently bewitched - or enchanted...


Achill Beginnings
This evening I am on a boat crossing the Irish Sea from Dublin to Liverpool. Suddenly I am five. I am with my mother and my sister on an...
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