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Competition Deadline: 2nd May 2021 We are delighted to announce the Mairtin Crawford Awards for Poetry and Short Story 2021. The Awards are aimed at writers working towards their first full collection of poetry, short stories, or a novel. Both published and unpublished writers are
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Ireland A Social History-from the Celts to the foundation of Unionism and Republicanism There are
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By way of introduction, I was the first surviving of my siblings to be born
Whether one was born into a rural or urban environment, growing up in the 1930s
I once boarded a plane with not the faintest idea of where it was going;
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