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The craking of the corncrake

A chara, – When my father was a cadet RIC at the depot in the Phoenix Park, one of their duties was to keep the corncrakes from…

Mon Oct 11 2010 - 01:00

A chara, – When my father was a cadet RIC at the depot in the Phoenix Park, one of their duties was to keep the corncrakes from craking at night in high grass round the Lord Lieutenant’s palace (Áras an Uachtaráin) so that the lord and her ladyship could get a wink of sleep. – Is mise,

UINSIN Ó DONABHÁIN,

Foxfield Road,

Raheny,

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Dublin.