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Making The Ballroom of Romance in Co Mayo: ‘Even passing it today, I still think I can hear the music in it’
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Wexford Festival Opera: Young cast cope well with demands of Andrew Synnott’s music
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A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history
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The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’
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In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
Paul Simon: Farewell and thank you to a near mythic troubadour
Paul Simon’s last Irish concert the RDS Dublin will be an intense, emotional evening
Daniel O'Donnell teasing Ireland's most excitable Mammies? It's pure filth
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The world’s greatest – but probably least-known – Irish library
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